{"id":86669,"date":"2025-05-29T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/86669\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:47:10","slug":"steelers-insider-on-will-howard-potentially-starting-in-2025-that-is-not-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/86669\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers insider on Will Howard potentially starting in 2025: &#8216;That is not the plan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Howard&#8217;s 2025 usage has been a hot topic of debate since the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steelers<\/a> drafted him \u2014 but an insider recently shot down any hope for the rookie QB to start this upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>With Aaron Rodgers inadvertently holding the Steelers&#8217; QB room hostage with his indecisiveness, Pittsburgh has very few options at signal caller \u2014 Mason Rudolph, Skylar Thompson, and Howard.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday&#8217;s Steelers chat on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/steelers\/2025\/05\/28\/chat-dulac-rodgers-tomlin-pickens-metcalf\/stories\/202505280025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>, insider Gerry Dulac was asked if Mike Tomlin would ever let Howard compete for the QB1 role this season \u2014 and this was his response:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they have any designs on letting a sixth-round rookie compete for the starting job this year. That is not the plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If there are plans for Howard to eventually take the starting reins in Pittsburgh, the Steelers will likely use his rookie season to develop him under Rudolph and another veteran QB.<\/p>\n<p>For up-to-date Steelers coverage, follow us on X <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesteelerswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@TheSteelersWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@TheSteelersWire<\/a> and give our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SteelersWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook page<\/a> a like.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/05\/28\/steelers-will-howard-2025-start\/83906228007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers rookie QB Will Howard will not start in 2025, per insider;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steelers rookie QB Will Howard will not start in 2025, per insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Howard&#8217;s 2025 usage has been a hot topic of debate since the Steelers drafted him \u2014 but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[1586,7,6600,560,1255,6,520,12744,57,2360,8345,3917,426,3316,2183],"class_list":{"0":"post-86669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-gerry-dulac","11":"tag-mason-rudolph","12":"tag-mike-tomlin","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-post-gazette","16":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","17":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","18":"tag-rookie-season","19":"tag-skylar-thompson","20":"tag-steelers","21":"tag-upcoming-season","22":"tag-will-howard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114588368732939713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86669","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=86669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}