New Jets to taste Justin Fields to be on the bench in Pittsburgh: “I wasn’t really comfortable”

It is right to wonder if Justin Fields would be the New York Jets quarterback at the moment if Mike Tomlin had not put him on the bench last season.

However, in his first availability of the media since he signed with the jets in March, Fields has not spoken of any of his former coaches or teammates in Pittsburgh. There was a lack of dramas in the comments of the quarterback: Florham Park will be different from the last two years in this sense – but he said that the configuration of last year for the Steelers, with the fields that have won four of his six departures before returning to a backup role behind a completely healthy Russell Wilson, at least made him less than at ease.

Consider that Fields was a five -star recruit that came out of high school, dominated after moving from the University of Georgia to the State of Ohio, and it was a choice of the first round of the Chicago bears in 2021 They had been repaired when the fields had been repaired when the fields were a tomlin when a tomlin was when there was a Tomlin when there was a Tomlin when there was a Tomlin when there was a Tomlin when there was a little tomlin when it was standing when the fields were sheltered when a tomlin was when there was a tomlin when there was a tomlin when there was a tomlin when Tomlin when he was a manhole when he was shades of Tuma. To put it on the bench.

Fields, however, took the bench at a pace, even if it was a new territory for him.

“I am a great supporter: everything happens for one reason,” Fields said on Wednesday. “I was put in a place (being a backup) in which I was not in my whole life. I tried to have a different perspective on it. Russ was in the league for a long time. I learned a lot of fantastic things from him and I learned a different perspective of things … it was different for me in a space in which I have never been at ease. I have not been comfortable. practice. “

Fields insists that Tomlin puts him on the bench last season did not take into account his decision to sign with the jets rather than sign again with the Steelers. Pittsburgh had an interest in bringing him back as a potential appetizer in 2025, although it is not clear how much they arrived at the two -year agreement of 40 million dollars with New York. (Pittsburgh has now turned his attention to … Aaron Rodgers, who remains available after the jets cut him with a post-June designation.)

“In this championship, I have the mentality that you cannot take personal things,” Fields said. “I was just enthusiastic about what jets are happening here (Aaron Glenn) and with the technical staff and all the genre. He had nothing to do with Pittsburgh but the opportunity I had here to have an impact and make things go.”

Glenn and the technical staff of the Jets feel as if they can draw on the potential of Fields in ways that neither the Steelers nor the bears have been able to do it – to really leave him play the position of the quarterback as well as using his skills as running quarterback.

“We will let him play quarterback,” Glenn said at the championship meeting in March. “This is what he always wanted to do. I’m not saying that he has not had the opportunity to do it in other places, it’s not my problem, but I know what I want to do with that player. Obviously I want to use his legs, but I also want to give him the opportunity to go out there and play quarterback.”

During three seasons in Chicago, Fields completed only 60.3 percent of his passages and launched 40 touchdown with 30 interceptions, although he rushed for 2,220 yard and 14 touchdown. In his year in Pittsburgh, he completed 65.8 percent career of his passages, but marked on average only 6.9 IARDE per attempt, which ranked 26 ° out of 43 passers -by with at least 150 attempts. He passed for more than 200 IARDE in only two of his six departures.

“I did what I was asked to do,” Fields said. “I have never had problems with this. I have always been a team player. I have always claimed to put myself behind the team. I have not intended to get too deep on what was happening in Chicago or what happened last year in Pittsburgh. But I’m grateful for all the experiences I had.

He will not hurt to have one of his favorite goals from the college for the race: the receiver of stars Garrett Wilson, who played with the fields in the state of Ohio in 2020. They have kept in touch over the years and Fields said to gather with him in the last few weeks, it did not seem that time had not passed.

“It’s fantastic,” said Fields. “We played together with college and when I saw it it is really like the old days. I don’t think our relationship has skipped a beat, so obviously I am definitely enthusiastic about playing with him and Ruck (close end Jeremy Ruckert) and (in the center) Josh Myers. I am enthusiastic about that and things we can do to help you improve and go back to the same page that we were at the college. he. “

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