PITTSBURGH — With coach Mike Tomlin and normal supervisor Omar Khan standing to his proper, new Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson was clear about his motivation in signing with the Steelers for the thirteenth yr of his embellished NFL profession.
“I wished to have the ability to win championships with Coach Tomlin and these guys within the locker room,” Wilson mentioned Friday afternoon, talking publicly for the primary time since signing a one-year contract for the veteran minimal with the Steelers. “… It is an important place to be pleased about the chance to have the ability to get after it and do what we got here right here to do. And that is to win soccer video games.”
Wilson is presently the one quarterback below contract with the Steelers after ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported 2022 first-round decide Kenny Pickett was traded to the Eagles on Friday. The group publicly dedicated to Pickett because the starter earlier this offseason, and Khan expressed “full religion” within the Pitt product, however Wilson’s addition was clearly extra than simply the “sturdy competitors” Steelers brass promised Pickett coming into his third season.
And although Wilson was clear about his reasoning for signing in Pittsburgh, he artfully side-stepped questions on his precise position with the group. Wilson spoke earlier than the report of Pickett’s commerce.
“I are available in with the mindset of simply being the perfect model of me daily,” Wilson mentioned, requested if he got here in with the mindset of being the group’s beginning quarterback. “I believe that is at all times the plan. What we’re making an attempt to do is for me, I wish to assist our soccer group win. I believe that is the job of the quarterback position is to assist the Pittsburgh Steelers win and that is at all times been the aim daily. And so the aim is to get extra trophies and to do every thing we will to win.”
And requested about his expectations, Wilson mentioned, “I am anticipating us to win.”
He continued: “I believe I am actually enthusiastic about simply the chance to essentially be the perfect model of myself daily. Deliver that to the desk. I do know what it appears to be like wish to win. Coach clearly is aware of what it appears to be like wish to win. This group does, and extra importantly town of Pittsburgh does. So I am enthusiastic about it.”
That successful tradition, Wilson mentioned, was a driving drive in his determination to signal with the Steelers after a brief free company — the primary time in his profession he is been on the open market.
“I obtained to speak to Omar, to Coach Tomlin on Zoom,” Wilson mentioned. “It was alleged to be a 15, 20-minute dialog. Subsequent factor you understand it is an hour and a half later.
“I believe that successful is a behavior and coach is aware of what these habits are like and that is what actually fired me up.”
Wilson additionally spoke with new teammate Cameron Heyward for over an hour on FaceTime whereas making his determination, together with having telephone conversations with Minkah Fitzpatrick and T.J. Watt. He additionally texted with Pickett instantly after deciding on the Steelers, and he went to dinner with a handful of teammates on Thursday night time.
“I look ahead to the competitors, being the perfect model of myself, most significantly,” Wilson mentioned. “I believe you at all times attempt to be the perfect model of you, and competing with your self daily. I do know the usual, what it appears to be like like. I do know what that appears like internally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, bodily. So that is the No. 1 factor.
“I believe the second of all is that you simply at all times wish to make the room higher. After which with making the room higher, you make the group higher, which what we’re actually competing for is including yet one more in there, that trophy case over there. So that is what we’re making an attempt to do collectively as a group.”
Wilson, who gained a Tremendous Bowl throughout his decade-long tenure in Seattle, arrives in Pittsburgh after a rocky two-year stint in Denver that ended with him on the bench in favor of Jarrett Stidham. The transfer got here after Wilson declined to change his contract midseason, and the group in the end launched him regardless of an $85 million cost in useless cash. Although Wilson’s numbers in his first season as a Bronco had been dismal — 16 touchdowns to 11 interceptions, 39 QBR — he improved in 2023 and threw 26 touchdowns to only eight interceptions with a 51 Whole QBR. The Steelers, in the meantime, have thrown a league-low 25 touchdowns within the final two seasons mixed.
“You’ll be able to take a look at it as development moments,” Wilson mentioned. “My first yr I had my lat (harm), I used to be taking part in on it, pushing by means of it, ought to I’ve finished that? You compete daily, you bought to do what you bought to do. And I believe that every thing did not go our approach the primary yr. This previous yr I felt like myself once more. And so I can not wait to only placed on the cleats and go after it.”
Together with Wilson, the Steelers launched two different free agent signings in linebacker Patrick Queen and security DeShon Elliott, each who had been drafted by the Ravens.
Queen, who agreed to phrases with the group on Tuesday, mentioned Wilson signing with the Steelers impacted his determination to return to Pittsburgh.
“It positively does,” Queen mentioned. “While you obtained a man like that who’s identified to win, and he most likely obtained a bit chip on his shoulder proper now, my job is to return and attempt to assist him get the ball again to him, get the ball again to the offense, let him do their factor.
“I believe if Russ performs like Russ, this group is frightening.”
As Wilson and his new teammates spoke, Tomlin, who celebrated his 52nd birthday by formally signing three free brokers Friday, appeared on and smiled, nodding as they navigated their information conferences.
Tomlin, coming into his 18th season because the Steelers’ head coach, has famously by no means had a dropping file. However the group additionally hasn’t gained a playoff recreation since 2016. And to Wilson, the urgency to right the course of latest historical past is palpable across the constructing.
“The sting, the will to win, the work ethic could be very evident if you stroll within the constructing,” Wilson mentioned. “You’re feeling it, you sense it, you understand it. While you work out with the blokes within the weight room, you see it. This can be a city that is gained rather a lot and so the perfect half about it’s that we will management right this moment. We won’t management tomorrow, we will not management what’s forward, however we will work for it, and we will go for it, and we will dream about it, however we obtained to capitalize on the alternatives, and that is just the start of it and I am excited for it.
“It may be an important journey. It may be a problem. It is not going to be simple, however it will be price it on the finish and we will make it price it, and we will do every thing we will to be the perfect model of us.”
PITTSBURGH — With coach Mike Tomlin and normal supervisor Omar Khan standing to his proper, new Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson was clear about his motivation in signing with the Steelers for the thirteenth yr of his embellished NFL profession.
“I wished to have the ability to win championships with Coach Tomlin and these guys within the locker room,” Wilson mentioned Friday afternoon, talking publicly for the primary time since signing a one-year contract for the veteran minimal with the Steelers. “… It is an important place to be pleased about the chance to have the ability to get after it and do what we got here right here to do. And that is to win soccer video games.”
Wilson is presently the one quarterback below contract with the Steelers after ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported 2022 first-round decide Kenny Pickett was traded to the Eagles on Friday. The group publicly dedicated to Pickett because the starter earlier this offseason, and Khan expressed “full religion” within the Pitt product, however Wilson’s addition was clearly extra than simply the “sturdy competitors” Steelers brass promised Pickett coming into his third season.
And although Wilson was clear about his reasoning for signing in Pittsburgh, he artfully side-stepped questions on his precise position with the group. Wilson spoke earlier than the report of Pickett’s commerce.
“I are available in with the mindset of simply being the perfect model of me daily,” Wilson mentioned, requested if he got here in with the mindset of being the group’s beginning quarterback. “I believe that is at all times the plan. What we’re making an attempt to do is for me, I wish to assist our soccer group win. I believe that is the job of the quarterback position is to assist the Pittsburgh Steelers win and that is at all times been the aim daily. And so the aim is to get extra trophies and to do every thing we will to win.”
And requested about his expectations, Wilson mentioned, “I am anticipating us to win.”
He continued: “I believe I am actually enthusiastic about simply the chance to essentially be the perfect model of myself daily. Deliver that to the desk. I do know what it appears to be like wish to win. Coach clearly is aware of what it appears to be like wish to win. This group does, and extra importantly town of Pittsburgh does. So I am enthusiastic about it.”
That successful tradition, Wilson mentioned, was a driving drive in his determination to signal with the Steelers after a brief free company — the primary time in his profession he is been on the open market.
“I obtained to speak to Omar, to Coach Tomlin on Zoom,” Wilson mentioned. “It was alleged to be a 15, 20-minute dialog. Subsequent factor you understand it is an hour and a half later.
“I believe that successful is a behavior and coach is aware of what these habits are like and that is what actually fired me up.”
Wilson additionally spoke with new teammate Cameron Heyward for over an hour on FaceTime whereas making his determination, together with having telephone conversations with Minkah Fitzpatrick and T.J. Watt. He additionally texted with Pickett instantly after deciding on the Steelers, and he went to dinner with a handful of teammates on Thursday night time.
“I look ahead to the competitors, being the perfect model of myself, most significantly,” Wilson mentioned. “I believe you at all times attempt to be the perfect model of you, and competing with your self daily. I do know the usual, what it appears to be like like. I do know what that appears like internally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, bodily. So that is the No. 1 factor.
“I believe the second of all is that you simply at all times wish to make the room higher. After which with making the room higher, you make the group higher, which what we’re actually competing for is including yet one more in there, that trophy case over there. So that is what we’re making an attempt to do collectively as a group.”
Wilson, who gained a Tremendous Bowl throughout his decade-long tenure in Seattle, arrives in Pittsburgh after a rocky two-year stint in Denver that ended with him on the bench in favor of Jarrett Stidham. The transfer got here after Wilson declined to change his contract midseason, and the group in the end launched him regardless of an $85 million cost in useless cash. Although Wilson’s numbers in his first season as a Bronco had been dismal — 16 touchdowns to 11 interceptions, 39 QBR — he improved in 2023 and threw 26 touchdowns to only eight interceptions with a 51 Whole QBR. The Steelers, in the meantime, have thrown a league-low 25 touchdowns within the final two seasons mixed.
“You’ll be able to take a look at it as development moments,” Wilson mentioned. “My first yr I had my lat (harm), I used to be taking part in on it, pushing by means of it, ought to I’ve finished that? You compete daily, you bought to do what you bought to do. And I believe that every thing did not go our approach the primary yr. This previous yr I felt like myself once more. And so I can not wait to only placed on the cleats and go after it.”
Together with Wilson, the Steelers launched two different free agent signings in linebacker Patrick Queen and security DeShon Elliott, each who had been drafted by the Ravens.
Queen, who agreed to phrases with the group on Tuesday, mentioned Wilson signing with the Steelers impacted his determination to return to Pittsburgh.
“It positively does,” Queen mentioned. “While you obtained a man like that who’s identified to win, and he most likely obtained a bit chip on his shoulder proper now, my job is to return and attempt to assist him get the ball again to him, get the ball again to the offense, let him do their factor.
“I believe if Russ performs like Russ, this group is frightening.”
As Wilson and his new teammates spoke, Tomlin, who celebrated his 52nd birthday by formally signing three free brokers Friday, appeared on and smiled, nodding as they navigated their information conferences.
Tomlin, coming into his 18th season because the Steelers’ head coach, has famously by no means had a dropping file. However the group additionally hasn’t gained a playoff recreation since 2016. And to Wilson, the urgency to right the course of latest historical past is palpable across the constructing.
“The sting, the will to win, the work ethic could be very evident if you stroll within the constructing,” Wilson mentioned. “You’re feeling it, you sense it, you understand it. While you work out with the blokes within the weight room, you see it. This can be a city that is gained rather a lot and so the perfect half about it’s that we will management right this moment. We won’t management tomorrow, we will not management what’s forward, however we will work for it, and we will go for it, and we will dream about it, however we obtained to capitalize on the alternatives, and that is just the start of it and I am excited for it.
“It may be an important journey. It may be a problem. It is not going to be simple, however it will be price it on the finish and we will make it price it, and we will do every thing we will to be the perfect model of us.”
PITTSBURGH — With coach Mike Tomlin and normal supervisor Omar Khan standing to his proper, new Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson was clear about his motivation in signing with the Steelers for the thirteenth yr of his embellished NFL profession.
“I wished to have the ability to win championships with Coach Tomlin and these guys within the locker room,” Wilson mentioned Friday afternoon, talking publicly for the primary time since signing a one-year contract for the veteran minimal with the Steelers. “… It is an important place to be pleased about the chance to have the ability to get after it and do what we got here right here to do. And that is to win soccer video games.”
Wilson is presently the one quarterback below contract with the Steelers after ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported 2022 first-round decide Kenny Pickett was traded to the Eagles on Friday. The group publicly dedicated to Pickett because the starter earlier this offseason, and Khan expressed “full religion” within the Pitt product, however Wilson’s addition was clearly extra than simply the “sturdy competitors” Steelers brass promised Pickett coming into his third season.
And although Wilson was clear about his reasoning for signing in Pittsburgh, he artfully side-stepped questions on his precise position with the group. Wilson spoke earlier than the report of Pickett’s commerce.
“I are available in with the mindset of simply being the perfect model of me daily,” Wilson mentioned, requested if he got here in with the mindset of being the group’s beginning quarterback. “I believe that is at all times the plan. What we’re making an attempt to do is for me, I wish to assist our soccer group win. I believe that is the job of the quarterback position is to assist the Pittsburgh Steelers win and that is at all times been the aim daily. And so the aim is to get extra trophies and to do every thing we will to win.”
And requested about his expectations, Wilson mentioned, “I am anticipating us to win.”
He continued: “I believe I am actually enthusiastic about simply the chance to essentially be the perfect model of myself daily. Deliver that to the desk. I do know what it appears to be like wish to win. Coach clearly is aware of what it appears to be like wish to win. This group does, and extra importantly town of Pittsburgh does. So I am enthusiastic about it.”
That successful tradition, Wilson mentioned, was a driving drive in his determination to signal with the Steelers after a brief free company — the primary time in his profession he is been on the open market.
“I obtained to speak to Omar, to Coach Tomlin on Zoom,” Wilson mentioned. “It was alleged to be a 15, 20-minute dialog. Subsequent factor you understand it is an hour and a half later.
“I believe that successful is a behavior and coach is aware of what these habits are like and that is what actually fired me up.”
Wilson additionally spoke with new teammate Cameron Heyward for over an hour on FaceTime whereas making his determination, together with having telephone conversations with Minkah Fitzpatrick and T.J. Watt. He additionally texted with Pickett instantly after deciding on the Steelers, and he went to dinner with a handful of teammates on Thursday night time.
“I look ahead to the competitors, being the perfect model of myself, most significantly,” Wilson mentioned. “I believe you at all times attempt to be the perfect model of you, and competing with your self daily. I do know the usual, what it appears to be like like. I do know what that appears like internally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, bodily. So that is the No. 1 factor.
“I believe the second of all is that you simply at all times wish to make the room higher. After which with making the room higher, you make the group higher, which what we’re actually competing for is including yet one more in there, that trophy case over there. So that is what we’re making an attempt to do collectively as a group.”
Wilson, who gained a Tremendous Bowl throughout his decade-long tenure in Seattle, arrives in Pittsburgh after a rocky two-year stint in Denver that ended with him on the bench in favor of Jarrett Stidham. The transfer got here after Wilson declined to change his contract midseason, and the group in the end launched him regardless of an $85 million cost in useless cash. Although Wilson’s numbers in his first season as a Bronco had been dismal — 16 touchdowns to 11 interceptions, 39 QBR — he improved in 2023 and threw 26 touchdowns to only eight interceptions with a 51 Whole QBR. The Steelers, in the meantime, have thrown a league-low 25 touchdowns within the final two seasons mixed.
“You’ll be able to take a look at it as development moments,” Wilson mentioned. “My first yr I had my lat (harm), I used to be taking part in on it, pushing by means of it, ought to I’ve finished that? You compete daily, you bought to do what you bought to do. And I believe that every thing did not go our approach the primary yr. This previous yr I felt like myself once more. And so I can not wait to only placed on the cleats and go after it.”
Together with Wilson, the Steelers launched two different free agent signings in linebacker Patrick Queen and security DeShon Elliott, each who had been drafted by the Ravens.
Queen, who agreed to phrases with the group on Tuesday, mentioned Wilson signing with the Steelers impacted his determination to return to Pittsburgh.
“It positively does,” Queen mentioned. “While you obtained a man like that who’s identified to win, and he most likely obtained a bit chip on his shoulder proper now, my job is to return and attempt to assist him get the ball again to him, get the ball again to the offense, let him do their factor.
“I believe if Russ performs like Russ, this group is frightening.”
As Wilson and his new teammates spoke, Tomlin, who celebrated his 52nd birthday by formally signing three free brokers Friday, appeared on and smiled, nodding as they navigated their information conferences.
Tomlin, coming into his 18th season because the Steelers’ head coach, has famously by no means had a dropping file. However the group additionally hasn’t gained a playoff recreation since 2016. And to Wilson, the urgency to right the course of latest historical past is palpable across the constructing.
“The sting, the will to win, the work ethic could be very evident if you stroll within the constructing,” Wilson mentioned. “You’re feeling it, you sense it, you understand it. While you work out with the blokes within the weight room, you see it. This can be a city that is gained rather a lot and so the perfect half about it’s that we will management right this moment. We won’t management tomorrow, we will not management what’s forward, however we will work for it, and we will go for it, and we will dream about it, however we obtained to capitalize on the alternatives, and that is just the start of it and I am excited for it.
“It may be an important journey. It may be a problem. It is not going to be simple, however it will be price it on the finish and we will make it price it, and we will do every thing we will to be the perfect model of us.”
PITTSBURGH — With coach Mike Tomlin and normal supervisor Omar Khan standing to his proper, new Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson was clear about his motivation in signing with the Steelers for the thirteenth yr of his embellished NFL profession.
“I wished to have the ability to win championships with Coach Tomlin and these guys within the locker room,” Wilson mentioned Friday afternoon, talking publicly for the primary time since signing a one-year contract for the veteran minimal with the Steelers. “… It is an important place to be pleased about the chance to have the ability to get after it and do what we got here right here to do. And that is to win soccer video games.”
Wilson is presently the one quarterback below contract with the Steelers after ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported 2022 first-round decide Kenny Pickett was traded to the Eagles on Friday. The group publicly dedicated to Pickett because the starter earlier this offseason, and Khan expressed “full religion” within the Pitt product, however Wilson’s addition was clearly extra than simply the “sturdy competitors” Steelers brass promised Pickett coming into his third season.
And although Wilson was clear about his reasoning for signing in Pittsburgh, he artfully side-stepped questions on his precise position with the group. Wilson spoke earlier than the report of Pickett’s commerce.
“I are available in with the mindset of simply being the perfect model of me daily,” Wilson mentioned, requested if he got here in with the mindset of being the group’s beginning quarterback. “I believe that is at all times the plan. What we’re making an attempt to do is for me, I wish to assist our soccer group win. I believe that is the job of the quarterback position is to assist the Pittsburgh Steelers win and that is at all times been the aim daily. And so the aim is to get extra trophies and to do every thing we will to win.”
And requested about his expectations, Wilson mentioned, “I am anticipating us to win.”
He continued: “I believe I am actually enthusiastic about simply the chance to essentially be the perfect model of myself daily. Deliver that to the desk. I do know what it appears to be like wish to win. Coach clearly is aware of what it appears to be like wish to win. This group does, and extra importantly town of Pittsburgh does. So I am enthusiastic about it.”
That successful tradition, Wilson mentioned, was a driving drive in his determination to signal with the Steelers after a brief free company — the primary time in his profession he is been on the open market.
“I obtained to speak to Omar, to Coach Tomlin on Zoom,” Wilson mentioned. “It was alleged to be a 15, 20-minute dialog. Subsequent factor you understand it is an hour and a half later.
“I believe that successful is a behavior and coach is aware of what these habits are like and that is what actually fired me up.”
Wilson additionally spoke with new teammate Cameron Heyward for over an hour on FaceTime whereas making his determination, together with having telephone conversations with Minkah Fitzpatrick and T.J. Watt. He additionally texted with Pickett instantly after deciding on the Steelers, and he went to dinner with a handful of teammates on Thursday night time.
“I look ahead to the competitors, being the perfect model of myself, most significantly,” Wilson mentioned. “I believe you at all times attempt to be the perfect model of you, and competing with your self daily. I do know the usual, what it appears to be like like. I do know what that appears like internally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, bodily. So that is the No. 1 factor.
“I believe the second of all is that you simply at all times wish to make the room higher. After which with making the room higher, you make the group higher, which what we’re actually competing for is including yet one more in there, that trophy case over there. So that is what we’re making an attempt to do collectively as a group.”
Wilson, who gained a Tremendous Bowl throughout his decade-long tenure in Seattle, arrives in Pittsburgh after a rocky two-year stint in Denver that ended with him on the bench in favor of Jarrett Stidham. The transfer got here after Wilson declined to change his contract midseason, and the group in the end launched him regardless of an $85 million cost in useless cash. Although Wilson’s numbers in his first season as a Bronco had been dismal — 16 touchdowns to 11 interceptions, 39 QBR — he improved in 2023 and threw 26 touchdowns to only eight interceptions with a 51 Whole QBR. The Steelers, in the meantime, have thrown a league-low 25 touchdowns within the final two seasons mixed.
“You’ll be able to take a look at it as development moments,” Wilson mentioned. “My first yr I had my lat (harm), I used to be taking part in on it, pushing by means of it, ought to I’ve finished that? You compete daily, you bought to do what you bought to do. And I believe that every thing did not go our approach the primary yr. This previous yr I felt like myself once more. And so I can not wait to only placed on the cleats and go after it.”
Together with Wilson, the Steelers launched two different free agent signings in linebacker Patrick Queen and security DeShon Elliott, each who had been drafted by the Ravens.
Queen, who agreed to phrases with the group on Tuesday, mentioned Wilson signing with the Steelers impacted his determination to return to Pittsburgh.
“It positively does,” Queen mentioned. “While you obtained a man like that who’s identified to win, and he most likely obtained a bit chip on his shoulder proper now, my job is to return and attempt to assist him get the ball again to him, get the ball again to the offense, let him do their factor.
“I believe if Russ performs like Russ, this group is frightening.”
As Wilson and his new teammates spoke, Tomlin, who celebrated his 52nd birthday by formally signing three free brokers Friday, appeared on and smiled, nodding as they navigated their information conferences.
Tomlin, coming into his 18th season because the Steelers’ head coach, has famously by no means had a dropping file. However the group additionally hasn’t gained a playoff recreation since 2016. And to Wilson, the urgency to right the course of latest historical past is palpable across the constructing.
“The sting, the will to win, the work ethic could be very evident if you stroll within the constructing,” Wilson mentioned. “You’re feeling it, you sense it, you understand it. While you work out with the blokes within the weight room, you see it. This can be a city that is gained rather a lot and so the perfect half about it’s that we will management right this moment. We won’t management tomorrow, we will not management what’s forward, however we will work for it, and we will go for it, and we will dream about it, however we obtained to capitalize on the alternatives, and that is just the start of it and I am excited for it.
“It may be an important journey. It may be a problem. It is not going to be simple, however it will be price it on the finish and we will make it price it, and we will do every thing we will to be the perfect model of us.”
PITTSBURGH — With coach Mike Tomlin and normal supervisor Omar Khan standing to his proper, new Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson was clear about his motivation in signing with the Steelers for the thirteenth yr of his embellished NFL profession.
“I wished to have the ability to win championships with Coach Tomlin and these guys within the locker room,” Wilson mentioned Friday afternoon, talking publicly for the primary time since signing a one-year contract for the veteran minimal with the Steelers. “… It is an important place to be pleased about the chance to have the ability to get after it and do what we got here right here to do. And that is to win soccer video games.”
Wilson is presently the one quarterback below contract with the Steelers after ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported 2022 first-round decide Kenny Pickett was traded to the Eagles on Friday. The group publicly dedicated to Pickett because the starter earlier this offseason, and Khan expressed “full religion” within the Pitt product, however Wilson’s addition was clearly extra than simply the “sturdy competitors” Steelers brass promised Pickett coming into his third season.
And although Wilson was clear about his reasoning for signing in Pittsburgh, he artfully side-stepped questions on his precise position with the group. Wilson spoke earlier than the report of Pickett’s commerce.
“I are available in with the mindset of simply being the perfect model of me daily,” Wilson mentioned, requested if he got here in with the mindset of being the group’s beginning quarterback. “I believe that is at all times the plan. What we’re making an attempt to do is for me, I wish to assist our soccer group win. I believe that is the job of the quarterback position is to assist the Pittsburgh Steelers win and that is at all times been the aim daily. And so the aim is to get extra trophies and to do every thing we will to win.”
And requested about his expectations, Wilson mentioned, “I am anticipating us to win.”
He continued: “I believe I am actually enthusiastic about simply the chance to essentially be the perfect model of myself daily. Deliver that to the desk. I do know what it appears to be like wish to win. Coach clearly is aware of what it appears to be like wish to win. This group does, and extra importantly town of Pittsburgh does. So I am enthusiastic about it.”
That successful tradition, Wilson mentioned, was a driving drive in his determination to signal with the Steelers after a brief free company — the primary time in his profession he is been on the open market.
“I obtained to speak to Omar, to Coach Tomlin on Zoom,” Wilson mentioned. “It was alleged to be a 15, 20-minute dialog. Subsequent factor you understand it is an hour and a half later.
“I believe that successful is a behavior and coach is aware of what these habits are like and that is what actually fired me up.”
Wilson additionally spoke with new teammate Cameron Heyward for over an hour on FaceTime whereas making his determination, together with having telephone conversations with Minkah Fitzpatrick and T.J. Watt. He additionally texted with Pickett instantly after deciding on the Steelers, and he went to dinner with a handful of teammates on Thursday night time.
“I look ahead to the competitors, being the perfect model of myself, most significantly,” Wilson mentioned. “I believe you at all times attempt to be the perfect model of you, and competing with your self daily. I do know the usual, what it appears to be like like. I do know what that appears like internally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, bodily. So that is the No. 1 factor.
“I believe the second of all is that you simply at all times wish to make the room higher. After which with making the room higher, you make the group higher, which what we’re actually competing for is including yet one more in there, that trophy case over there. So that is what we’re making an attempt to do collectively as a group.”
Wilson, who gained a Tremendous Bowl throughout his decade-long tenure in Seattle, arrives in Pittsburgh after a rocky two-year stint in Denver that ended with him on the bench in favor of Jarrett Stidham. The transfer got here after Wilson declined to change his contract midseason, and the group in the end launched him regardless of an $85 million cost in useless cash. Although Wilson’s numbers in his first season as a Bronco had been dismal — 16 touchdowns to 11 interceptions, 39 QBR — he improved in 2023 and threw 26 touchdowns to only eight interceptions with a 51 Whole QBR. The Steelers, in the meantime, have thrown a league-low 25 touchdowns within the final two seasons mixed.
“You’ll be able to take a look at it as development moments,” Wilson mentioned. “My first yr I had my lat (harm), I used to be taking part in on it, pushing by means of it, ought to I’ve finished that? You compete daily, you bought to do what you bought to do. And I believe that every thing did not go our approach the primary yr. This previous yr I felt like myself once more. And so I can not wait to only placed on the cleats and go after it.”
Together with Wilson, the Steelers launched two different free agent signings in linebacker Patrick Queen and security DeShon Elliott, each who had been drafted by the Ravens.
Queen, who agreed to phrases with the group on Tuesday, mentioned Wilson signing with the Steelers impacted his determination to return to Pittsburgh.
“It positively does,” Queen mentioned. “While you obtained a man like that who’s identified to win, and he most likely obtained a bit chip on his shoulder proper now, my job is to return and attempt to assist him get the ball again to him, get the ball again to the offense, let him do their factor.
“I believe if Russ performs like Russ, this group is frightening.”
As Wilson and his new teammates spoke, Tomlin, who celebrated his 52nd birthday by formally signing three free brokers Friday, appeared on and smiled, nodding as they navigated their information conferences.
Tomlin, coming into his 18th season because the Steelers’ head coach, has famously by no means had a dropping file. However the group additionally hasn’t gained a playoff recreation since 2016. And to Wilson, the urgency to right the course of latest historical past is palpable across the constructing.
“The sting, the will to win, the work ethic could be very evident if you stroll within the constructing,” Wilson mentioned. “You’re feeling it, you sense it, you understand it. While you work out with the blokes within the weight room, you see it. This can be a city that is gained rather a lot and so the perfect half about it’s that we will management right this moment. We won’t management tomorrow, we will not management what’s forward, however we will work for it, and we will go for it, and we will dream about it, however we obtained to capitalize on the alternatives, and that is just the start of it and I am excited for it.
“It may be an important journey. It may be a problem. It is not going to be simple, however it will be price it on the finish and we will make it price it, and we will do every thing we will to be the perfect model of us.”
PITTSBURGH — With coach Mike Tomlin and normal supervisor Omar Khan standing to his proper, new Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson was clear about his motivation in signing with the Steelers for the thirteenth yr of his embellished NFL profession.
“I wished to have the ability to win championships with Coach Tomlin and these guys within the locker room,” Wilson mentioned Friday afternoon, talking publicly for the primary time since signing a one-year contract for the veteran minimal with the Steelers. “… It is an important place to be pleased about the chance to have the ability to get after it and do what we got here right here to do. And that is to win soccer video games.”
Wilson is presently the one quarterback below contract with the Steelers after ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported 2022 first-round decide Kenny Pickett was traded to the Eagles on Friday. The group publicly dedicated to Pickett because the starter earlier this offseason, and Khan expressed “full religion” within the Pitt product, however Wilson’s addition was clearly extra than simply the “sturdy competitors” Steelers brass promised Pickett coming into his third season.
And although Wilson was clear about his reasoning for signing in Pittsburgh, he artfully side-stepped questions on his precise position with the group. Wilson spoke earlier than the report of Pickett’s commerce.
“I are available in with the mindset of simply being the perfect model of me daily,” Wilson mentioned, requested if he got here in with the mindset of being the group’s beginning quarterback. “I believe that is at all times the plan. What we’re making an attempt to do is for me, I wish to assist our soccer group win. I believe that is the job of the quarterback position is to assist the Pittsburgh Steelers win and that is at all times been the aim daily. And so the aim is to get extra trophies and to do every thing we will to win.”
And requested about his expectations, Wilson mentioned, “I am anticipating us to win.”
He continued: “I believe I am actually enthusiastic about simply the chance to essentially be the perfect model of myself daily. Deliver that to the desk. I do know what it appears to be like wish to win. Coach clearly is aware of what it appears to be like wish to win. This group does, and extra importantly town of Pittsburgh does. So I am enthusiastic about it.”
That successful tradition, Wilson mentioned, was a driving drive in his determination to signal with the Steelers after a brief free company — the primary time in his profession he is been on the open market.
“I obtained to speak to Omar, to Coach Tomlin on Zoom,” Wilson mentioned. “It was alleged to be a 15, 20-minute dialog. Subsequent factor you understand it is an hour and a half later.
“I believe that successful is a behavior and coach is aware of what these habits are like and that is what actually fired me up.”
Wilson additionally spoke with new teammate Cameron Heyward for over an hour on FaceTime whereas making his determination, together with having telephone conversations with Minkah Fitzpatrick and T.J. Watt. He additionally texted with Pickett instantly after deciding on the Steelers, and he went to dinner with a handful of teammates on Thursday night time.
“I look ahead to the competitors, being the perfect model of myself, most significantly,” Wilson mentioned. “I believe you at all times attempt to be the perfect model of you, and competing with your self daily. I do know the usual, what it appears to be like like. I do know what that appears like internally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, bodily. So that is the No. 1 factor.
“I believe the second of all is that you simply at all times wish to make the room higher. After which with making the room higher, you make the group higher, which what we’re actually competing for is including yet one more in there, that trophy case over there. So that is what we’re making an attempt to do collectively as a group.”
Wilson, who gained a Tremendous Bowl throughout his decade-long tenure in Seattle, arrives in Pittsburgh after a rocky two-year stint in Denver that ended with him on the bench in favor of Jarrett Stidham. The transfer got here after Wilson declined to change his contract midseason, and the group in the end launched him regardless of an $85 million cost in useless cash. Although Wilson’s numbers in his first season as a Bronco had been dismal — 16 touchdowns to 11 interceptions, 39 QBR — he improved in 2023 and threw 26 touchdowns to only eight interceptions with a 51 Whole QBR. The Steelers, in the meantime, have thrown a league-low 25 touchdowns within the final two seasons mixed.
“You’ll be able to take a look at it as development moments,” Wilson mentioned. “My first yr I had my lat (harm), I used to be taking part in on it, pushing by means of it, ought to I’ve finished that? You compete daily, you bought to do what you bought to do. And I believe that every thing did not go our approach the primary yr. This previous yr I felt like myself once more. And so I can not wait to only placed on the cleats and go after it.”
Together with Wilson, the Steelers launched two different free agent signings in linebacker Patrick Queen and security DeShon Elliott, each who had been drafted by the Ravens.
Queen, who agreed to phrases with the group on Tuesday, mentioned Wilson signing with the Steelers impacted his determination to return to Pittsburgh.
“It positively does,” Queen mentioned. “While you obtained a man like that who’s identified to win, and he most likely obtained a bit chip on his shoulder proper now, my job is to return and attempt to assist him get the ball again to him, get the ball again to the offense, let him do their factor.
“I believe if Russ performs like Russ, this group is frightening.”
As Wilson and his new teammates spoke, Tomlin, who celebrated his 52nd birthday by formally signing three free brokers Friday, appeared on and smiled, nodding as they navigated their information conferences.
Tomlin, coming into his 18th season because the Steelers’ head coach, has famously by no means had a dropping file. However the group additionally hasn’t gained a playoff recreation since 2016. And to Wilson, the urgency to right the course of latest historical past is palpable across the constructing.
“The sting, the will to win, the work ethic could be very evident if you stroll within the constructing,” Wilson mentioned. “You’re feeling it, you sense it, you understand it. While you work out with the blokes within the weight room, you see it. This can be a city that is gained rather a lot and so the perfect half about it’s that we will management right this moment. We won’t management tomorrow, we will not management what’s forward, however we will work for it, and we will go for it, and we will dream about it, however we obtained to capitalize on the alternatives, and that is just the start of it and I am excited for it.
“It may be an important journey. It may be a problem. It is not going to be simple, however it will be price it on the finish and we will make it price it, and we will do every thing we will to be the perfect model of us.”
PITTSBURGH — With coach Mike Tomlin and normal supervisor Omar Khan standing to his proper, new Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson was clear about his motivation in signing with the Steelers for the thirteenth yr of his embellished NFL profession.
“I wished to have the ability to win championships with Coach Tomlin and these guys within the locker room,” Wilson mentioned Friday afternoon, talking publicly for the primary time since signing a one-year contract for the veteran minimal with the Steelers. “… It is an important place to be pleased about the chance to have the ability to get after it and do what we got here right here to do. And that is to win soccer video games.”
Wilson is presently the one quarterback below contract with the Steelers after ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported 2022 first-round decide Kenny Pickett was traded to the Eagles on Friday. The group publicly dedicated to Pickett because the starter earlier this offseason, and Khan expressed “full religion” within the Pitt product, however Wilson’s addition was clearly extra than simply the “sturdy competitors” Steelers brass promised Pickett coming into his third season.
And although Wilson was clear about his reasoning for signing in Pittsburgh, he artfully side-stepped questions on his precise position with the group. Wilson spoke earlier than the report of Pickett’s commerce.
“I are available in with the mindset of simply being the perfect model of me daily,” Wilson mentioned, requested if he got here in with the mindset of being the group’s beginning quarterback. “I believe that is at all times the plan. What we’re making an attempt to do is for me, I wish to assist our soccer group win. I believe that is the job of the quarterback position is to assist the Pittsburgh Steelers win and that is at all times been the aim daily. And so the aim is to get extra trophies and to do every thing we will to win.”
And requested about his expectations, Wilson mentioned, “I am anticipating us to win.”
He continued: “I believe I am actually enthusiastic about simply the chance to essentially be the perfect model of myself daily. Deliver that to the desk. I do know what it appears to be like wish to win. Coach clearly is aware of what it appears to be like wish to win. This group does, and extra importantly town of Pittsburgh does. So I am enthusiastic about it.”
That successful tradition, Wilson mentioned, was a driving drive in his determination to signal with the Steelers after a brief free company — the primary time in his profession he is been on the open market.
“I obtained to speak to Omar, to Coach Tomlin on Zoom,” Wilson mentioned. “It was alleged to be a 15, 20-minute dialog. Subsequent factor you understand it is an hour and a half later.
“I believe that successful is a behavior and coach is aware of what these habits are like and that is what actually fired me up.”
Wilson additionally spoke with new teammate Cameron Heyward for over an hour on FaceTime whereas making his determination, together with having telephone conversations with Minkah Fitzpatrick and T.J. Watt. He additionally texted with Pickett instantly after deciding on the Steelers, and he went to dinner with a handful of teammates on Thursday night time.
“I look ahead to the competitors, being the perfect model of myself, most significantly,” Wilson mentioned. “I believe you at all times attempt to be the perfect model of you, and competing with your self daily. I do know the usual, what it appears to be like like. I do know what that appears like internally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, bodily. So that is the No. 1 factor.
“I believe the second of all is that you simply at all times wish to make the room higher. After which with making the room higher, you make the group higher, which what we’re actually competing for is including yet one more in there, that trophy case over there. So that is what we’re making an attempt to do collectively as a group.”
Wilson, who gained a Tremendous Bowl throughout his decade-long tenure in Seattle, arrives in Pittsburgh after a rocky two-year stint in Denver that ended with him on the bench in favor of Jarrett Stidham. The transfer got here after Wilson declined to change his contract midseason, and the group in the end launched him regardless of an $85 million cost in useless cash. Although Wilson’s numbers in his first season as a Bronco had been dismal — 16 touchdowns to 11 interceptions, 39 QBR — he improved in 2023 and threw 26 touchdowns to only eight interceptions with a 51 Whole QBR. The Steelers, in the meantime, have thrown a league-low 25 touchdowns within the final two seasons mixed.
“You’ll be able to take a look at it as development moments,” Wilson mentioned. “My first yr I had my lat (harm), I used to be taking part in on it, pushing by means of it, ought to I’ve finished that? You compete daily, you bought to do what you bought to do. And I believe that every thing did not go our approach the primary yr. This previous yr I felt like myself once more. And so I can not wait to only placed on the cleats and go after it.”
Together with Wilson, the Steelers launched two different free agent signings in linebacker Patrick Queen and security DeShon Elliott, each who had been drafted by the Ravens.
Queen, who agreed to phrases with the group on Tuesday, mentioned Wilson signing with the Steelers impacted his determination to return to Pittsburgh.
“It positively does,” Queen mentioned. “While you obtained a man like that who’s identified to win, and he most likely obtained a bit chip on his shoulder proper now, my job is to return and attempt to assist him get the ball again to him, get the ball again to the offense, let him do their factor.
“I believe if Russ performs like Russ, this group is frightening.”
As Wilson and his new teammates spoke, Tomlin, who celebrated his 52nd birthday by formally signing three free brokers Friday, appeared on and smiled, nodding as they navigated their information conferences.
Tomlin, coming into his 18th season because the Steelers’ head coach, has famously by no means had a dropping file. However the group additionally hasn’t gained a playoff recreation since 2016. And to Wilson, the urgency to right the course of latest historical past is palpable across the constructing.
“The sting, the will to win, the work ethic could be very evident if you stroll within the constructing,” Wilson mentioned. “You’re feeling it, you sense it, you understand it. While you work out with the blokes within the weight room, you see it. This can be a city that is gained rather a lot and so the perfect half about it’s that we will management right this moment. We won’t management tomorrow, we will not management what’s forward, however we will work for it, and we will go for it, and we will dream about it, however we obtained to capitalize on the alternatives, and that is just the start of it and I am excited for it.
“It may be an important journey. It may be a problem. It is not going to be simple, however it will be price it on the finish and we will make it price it, and we will do every thing we will to be the perfect model of us.”
PITTSBURGH — With coach Mike Tomlin and normal supervisor Omar Khan standing to his proper, new Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson was clear about his motivation in signing with the Steelers for the thirteenth yr of his embellished NFL profession.
“I wished to have the ability to win championships with Coach Tomlin and these guys within the locker room,” Wilson mentioned Friday afternoon, talking publicly for the primary time since signing a one-year contract for the veteran minimal with the Steelers. “… It is an important place to be pleased about the chance to have the ability to get after it and do what we got here right here to do. And that is to win soccer video games.”
Wilson is presently the one quarterback below contract with the Steelers after ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported 2022 first-round decide Kenny Pickett was traded to the Eagles on Friday. The group publicly dedicated to Pickett because the starter earlier this offseason, and Khan expressed “full religion” within the Pitt product, however Wilson’s addition was clearly extra than simply the “sturdy competitors” Steelers brass promised Pickett coming into his third season.
And although Wilson was clear about his reasoning for signing in Pittsburgh, he artfully side-stepped questions on his precise position with the group. Wilson spoke earlier than the report of Pickett’s commerce.
“I are available in with the mindset of simply being the perfect model of me daily,” Wilson mentioned, requested if he got here in with the mindset of being the group’s beginning quarterback. “I believe that is at all times the plan. What we’re making an attempt to do is for me, I wish to assist our soccer group win. I believe that is the job of the quarterback position is to assist the Pittsburgh Steelers win and that is at all times been the aim daily. And so the aim is to get extra trophies and to do every thing we will to win.”
And requested about his expectations, Wilson mentioned, “I am anticipating us to win.”
He continued: “I believe I am actually enthusiastic about simply the chance to essentially be the perfect model of myself daily. Deliver that to the desk. I do know what it appears to be like wish to win. Coach clearly is aware of what it appears to be like wish to win. This group does, and extra importantly town of Pittsburgh does. So I am enthusiastic about it.”
That successful tradition, Wilson mentioned, was a driving drive in his determination to signal with the Steelers after a brief free company — the primary time in his profession he is been on the open market.
“I obtained to speak to Omar, to Coach Tomlin on Zoom,” Wilson mentioned. “It was alleged to be a 15, 20-minute dialog. Subsequent factor you understand it is an hour and a half later.
“I believe that successful is a behavior and coach is aware of what these habits are like and that is what actually fired me up.”
Wilson additionally spoke with new teammate Cameron Heyward for over an hour on FaceTime whereas making his determination, together with having telephone conversations with Minkah Fitzpatrick and T.J. Watt. He additionally texted with Pickett instantly after deciding on the Steelers, and he went to dinner with a handful of teammates on Thursday night time.
“I look ahead to the competitors, being the perfect model of myself, most significantly,” Wilson mentioned. “I believe you at all times attempt to be the perfect model of you, and competing with your self daily. I do know the usual, what it appears to be like like. I do know what that appears like internally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, bodily. So that is the No. 1 factor.
“I believe the second of all is that you simply at all times wish to make the room higher. After which with making the room higher, you make the group higher, which what we’re actually competing for is including yet one more in there, that trophy case over there. So that is what we’re making an attempt to do collectively as a group.”
Wilson, who gained a Tremendous Bowl throughout his decade-long tenure in Seattle, arrives in Pittsburgh after a rocky two-year stint in Denver that ended with him on the bench in favor of Jarrett Stidham. The transfer got here after Wilson declined to change his contract midseason, and the group in the end launched him regardless of an $85 million cost in useless cash. Although Wilson’s numbers in his first season as a Bronco had been dismal — 16 touchdowns to 11 interceptions, 39 QBR — he improved in 2023 and threw 26 touchdowns to only eight interceptions with a 51 Whole QBR. The Steelers, in the meantime, have thrown a league-low 25 touchdowns within the final two seasons mixed.
“You’ll be able to take a look at it as development moments,” Wilson mentioned. “My first yr I had my lat (harm), I used to be taking part in on it, pushing by means of it, ought to I’ve finished that? You compete daily, you bought to do what you bought to do. And I believe that every thing did not go our approach the primary yr. This previous yr I felt like myself once more. And so I can not wait to only placed on the cleats and go after it.”
Together with Wilson, the Steelers launched two different free agent signings in linebacker Patrick Queen and security DeShon Elliott, each who had been drafted by the Ravens.
Queen, who agreed to phrases with the group on Tuesday, mentioned Wilson signing with the Steelers impacted his determination to return to Pittsburgh.
“It positively does,” Queen mentioned. “While you obtained a man like that who’s identified to win, and he most likely obtained a bit chip on his shoulder proper now, my job is to return and attempt to assist him get the ball again to him, get the ball again to the offense, let him do their factor.
“I believe if Russ performs like Russ, this group is frightening.”
As Wilson and his new teammates spoke, Tomlin, who celebrated his 52nd birthday by formally signing three free brokers Friday, appeared on and smiled, nodding as they navigated their information conferences.
Tomlin, coming into his 18th season because the Steelers’ head coach, has famously by no means had a dropping file. However the group additionally hasn’t gained a playoff recreation since 2016. And to Wilson, the urgency to right the course of latest historical past is palpable across the constructing.
“The sting, the will to win, the work ethic could be very evident if you stroll within the constructing,” Wilson mentioned. “You’re feeling it, you sense it, you understand it. While you work out with the blokes within the weight room, you see it. This can be a city that is gained rather a lot and so the perfect half about it’s that we will management right this moment. We won’t management tomorrow, we will not management what’s forward, however we will work for it, and we will go for it, and we will dream about it, however we obtained to capitalize on the alternatives, and that is just the start of it and I am excited for it.
“It may be an important journey. It may be a problem. It is not going to be simple, however it will be price it on the finish and we will make it price it, and we will do every thing we will to be the perfect model of us.”