This quarterback could be the Pittsburgh Steelers’ next experiment

MOBILE, Ala. — The Pittsburgh Steelers step into the 2025 NFL Draft with no sure quarterback option on the roster. Team President Art Rooney II said that the team anticipates bringing back Russell Wilson or Justin Fields, but even then, the focus would be on trying to secure the quarterback of the future.

Rooney acknowledged that the NFL Draft feels like an avenue through which the team will go down either in 2025 or 2026 to try and fill that void, which he views as the franchise’s biggest problem.

“I think they’re both capable quarterbacks, and my preference would be to sign one of them. So that will be the priority, and I think that will give us the best opportunity to move forward,” Rooney said. “Obviously, we’ll be looking in the draft as well. We’ve got a whole quarterback room to fill, and so there’s jobs open in there, and so I wouldn’t be surprised if we look in the draft as well either this year or next. And so that’s got to be the priority.”

At the 2025 Senior Bowl, the top quarterback is Alabama’s Jalen Milroe. A two-time captain, Milroe will wow in interviews as a humble, strong-willed leader who has proven his intangibles.

However, the football tape itself is the question. Milroe has struggled with processing and accuracy in his Alabama tenure, and he did the same during his first Senior Bowl practice. Milroe will need better performances to rise up draft boards.

For the Steelers, that might push him down boards, however. Milroe’s live arm and athleticism give a unique pair of traits that no one else in the group at the Senior Bowl has, and it could rocket him up to a Top-50 selection in a shallow quarterback class Milroe’s quarterback coach Jordan Palmer in a recent interview with cleveland.com compared him to Lamar Jackson, which is too strong a comparison for someone with the rough edges.

However, if the Steelers want to take a Day 2 upside swing, Milroe could be the answer. If he falls, the question becomes whether Milroe’s timeline fits in with the Steelers’ current environment.

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