The Steelers have started the season 2-1 with Aaron Rodgers at quarterback and Pittsburgh will be featured for an international audience this weekend when the club plays Minnesota in Dublin.
Pittsburgh currently ranks No. 12 in points scored with 72. But the club is No. 30 in yards, averaging 247 per game.
Rodgers noted after Sunday’s win over the Patriots that he didn’t feel he played well in the 21-14 victory. But when asked about those comments in his Tuesday press conference, head coach Mike Tomlin said Rogers “certainly has been” what he expected coming into the year.
“[N]ot only in terms of his play, but in terms of his relationship with the game. How he interacts with teammates, how he loves the preparation process,” Tomlin said, via transcript from the team. “All those things have been double thumbs up, so it’s reasonable to expect the in-stadium performance to mirror that.
“He may be disappointed with how he played last week, but we had an opportunity this week to do something about it. Just watching him day to day, there is not a high level of concern in terms of outcome being what we and he desire.”
So far this season, Rodgers has completed 65.1 percent of his passes for 586 yards with seven touchdowns and three interceptions.
Quincy Williams was not the only Jets linebacker to land on injured reserve Tuesday.
The Jets announced that Marcelino McCrary-Ball is also going on the list. McCrary-Ball hurt his hamstring in Sunday’s loss to the Buccaneers and will now miss at least four games.
McCrary-Ball is one of the team’s captains due to his work on special teams. He has 17 tackles on 77 defensive snaps and 75 special teams snaps this season.
The Jets confirmed that they have signed linebacker Mark Robinson off of the Patriots’ practice squad. They did not fill the other open spot, but that will likely go to cornerback Jarvis Brownlee once their trade with the Titans is official.
They rounded out the day’s moves by signing linebacker Ben Niemann to the practice squad and releasing offensive lineman Liam Fornadel from that roster.
The Titans and Jets have reportedly agreed on a trade.
Per multiple reports, cornerback Jarvis Brownlee will go from Tennessee to the Jets in the deal. The Titans will also send 2026 seventh-round pick to the AFC East club while the Jets’ 2026 sixth-rounder will go back in return.
Brownlee was a 2024 fifth-round pick and he’s started 16 of the 19 games he’s played since entering the NFL. He had 75 tackles, an interception, and a fumble recovery as a rookie, and had 17 tackles in the first two games of this season. Brownlee did not play in Tennessee’s Week 3 loss to the Colts.
The Jets have Sauce Gardner, Brandon Stephens, Michael Carter, Azareye’h Thomas, and Qwantezz Stiggers as their other cornerbacks.
Jets linebacker Quincy Williams left Sunday’s loss to the Buccaneers with a shoulder injury and he’s set to miss at least four games as a result.
Rich Cimini of ESPN.com reports that Williams will be placed on injured reserve. The Jets will be in Miami next Monday night and they also have games against the Cowboys, Broncos, and Panthers before Williams will be eligible to return.
It’s not known if Williams will be back after those four games, but the injury is reportedly not considered to be a season-ending one. The Jets are signing linebacker Mark Robinson off the Patriots’ practice squad to fill out the linebacker group while Williams is out.
Williams had 15 tackles and 1.5 sacks in the first three weeks of the season. He has been a fixture in the Jets defense for the last four seasons and was a first-team All-Pro in 2023.
The Jets are plucking a linebacker away from one of their divisional rivals.
Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Jets are signing linebacker Mark Robinson to their 53-man roster. Robinson spent the first three weeks of the season on New England’s practice squad.
Robinson was elevated by the Patriots for each of their first three games this season. He had three tackles on 37 special teams snaps.
Robinson was a 2022 seventh-round pick of the Steelers and he appeared in 38 regular season games for the team, including all 34 they played the last two years. He started four times and had 45 tackles, a sack, and three forced fumbles for Pittsburgh.
The Jets needed some depth at linebacker because they could be without Quincy Williams this week. He left Sunday’s loss to the Buccaneers with a shoulder injury.
