{"id":116216,"date":"2025-06-09T14:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/116216\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:08:13","slug":"roman-wilson-gets-it-mentally-now-mark-kaboly-says-hes-really-caught-your-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/116216\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Wilson ‘Gets It Mentally Now’, Mark Kaboly Says: ‘He’s Really Caught Your Eye’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Steelers WR Roman Wilson continues to draw rave reviews, including on arguably one particularly significant point. Amid his injuries last season, Wilson lost a lot of valuable practice time that limited his on-field work. The general impression is that, at that point, the team redshirted him<\/a>, seeing it as a lost cause to catch him up in time to contribute as a rookie.<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s a new year and a new beginning, and Roman Wilson is behind on nothing, according to Mark Kaboly. \u201cRoman Wilson, he\u2019s transformed his body\u201d, he said last night the #1 Cochran Sports Showdown<\/a>. \u201cAnd I think he gets it mentally now. Now, we have to wait until he gets on the field and actually participates in games to make an ultimate decision. But he\u2019s really caught your eye that first two weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n

Back in February, Bob Labriola shared the following opinion<\/a> on the Steelers\u2019 website: \u201cMy understanding of the situation is that at no point was there a legitimate level of confidence that Roman Wilson understood the offense and his responsibilities within it to the degree that would allow him to execute it at game speed during the stretch run of an NFL regular season\u201d.<\/p>\n

A third-round pick out of Michigan, Roman Wilson played five snaps as a rookie. He suffered an injury on the first day of pads during training camp, which kept him limited into the season. He spent weeks inactive before finally dressing once and barely playing. During the following weeks\u2019 practices, he injured himself again and the team placed him on IR. He never returned, though they opened his 21-day practice window at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoman Wilson\u2019s been good\u201d, Jeff Hathhorn said, also on last night\u2019s Cochran panel. \u201cHe\u2019s saying the right things. He\u2019s staying late after practice to work on things<\/a>. You like that\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Steelers are hoping for a big jump from Wilson in his second season, though not relying on it. The fact that they recently brought in WR Gabe Davis for a visit shows they are being proactive. While they have DK Metcalf as their top receiver, they know they can\u2019t just cross their fingers and hope Wilson will immediately establish himself as the next in line.<\/p>\n

Perhaps he can<\/a>, and perhaps he will, but smart teams don\u2019t take these things for granted. The Steelers still have Calvin Austin III, and they did sign Robert Woods. Still, it feels likely they will add a veteran of some note before training camp. And if Roman Wilson should just so happen to outperform him, well, there are worse problems to have.<\/p>\n

One thing that is certainly not in question is Roman Wilson\u2019s work ethic<\/a>, which has drawn universal praise. If he should not succeed in the NFL, it won\u2019t because of a lack of effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers WR Roman Wilson continues to draw rave reviews, including on arguably one particularly significant point. Amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[19983,7,5241,57,4112,691],"class_list":{"0":"post-116216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-1-cochran-sports-showdown","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-mark-kaboly","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","12":"tag-roman-wilson","13":"tag-trending"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114653803845377683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}