Pittsburgh Steelers: PFT duo send stark warning to Mike Tomlin over Trubisky v Pickett battle

Pro Football Talk duo Mike Florio and Chris Simms have both made the same claim when it comes to Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and his decision to name a starting quarterback.

This preseason has turned into something of a headache for Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, as he has to do something that he has never had to do in his 15 previous years in charge of the team, and that’s to pick a starting quarterback.

In all the years previously, he’s been able to rely on Ben Roethlisberger to be under centre for them, but following his retirement this past offseason, they needed to find a new man. Mitch Trubisky came in as a free agent and seemed like he was going to be the man to lead them.

But then they drafted Kenny Pickett in the first round, and things changed quickly, as it essentially put a time limit on how long it would be before he would take over. Now in some cases, that could be a number of years, as was the case with Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay, as he sat as the backup to Brett Favre for three years before becoming the starter.

But the play of both quarterbacks in preseason made things a lot more difficult than they perhaps should have been.

As stats show, neither quarterback really pulled ahead in the battle to be named the starter, as they were both very impressive with what they were able to accomplish, with both men having to work both with and against first-string players and second-string options from their opponents at various points throughout the past few weeks:

Mitch Trubisky's preseason: 24/34, 283 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT, avg 8.3 yards per attemptKenny Pickett's preseason: 29/36 for 261 yards, 3 TD, 0 INT, avg 7.3 yards per attempt

But with the first week of the season fast approaching,