Steelers' Russell Wilson sidelined again with calf issue - ESPN

PITTSBURGH — For the second day in a row, Mr. Unlimited's participation was very limited at Pittsburgh Steelers training camp.

Coach Mike Tomlin opted to sideline quarterback Russell Wilson again out of an abundance of caution following the quarterback's calf injury during the team's conditioning test Wednesday afternoon.

«We were doing a sled-push thing and just tweaked it a little bit,» Wilson said. "… It was the fourth, fifth time we did the sled push, I felt a little something.… I feel good. It's nothing to panic about or to worry about at all."

Wilson wore a baseball cap and sneakers at the Steelers' second training camp practice. He didn't participate in individual or team drills. He did light throwing with the quarterbacks during warmups and tossed around a football with teammates between drills.

«The good thing is I'm getting a lot of the mental reps and throwing stuff on the side and the post practice [work],» Wilson said. Though Wilson didn't have a timetable for his return, he said that if this was a game day, he would be able to play. In sitting Wilson, Tomlin told the quarterback he was giving him some «short-term misery.»

«I want to get back today, yesterday,» Wilson said. «But Coach is like, listen, we got time and we're still, and I got a lot of reps in the offseason so we're not just trying to rush it.

»I hate not practicing. [Tomlin] was laughing. He's like, 'I enjoy this. You got to wait a second.' And all that. So it was funny. I think that Coach and the trainers are being just super careful, just so nothing gets worse or nothing happens."

In Wilson's absence, quarterback Justin Fields continued to get first-team work and showed a strong connection with wide receivers George Pickens and Calvin Austin,