Pittsburgh Steelers GM Omar Khan doesn't rule out any method of adding additional QBs in 2024
While Pittsburgh Steelers GM Omar Khan went to bat for Kenny Pickett at the NFL Combine, he acknowledged there would be some sort of competition. Now that competition may go on behind Pickett who will likely be the starter, but it still lends credence to the idea that Pittsburgh will sign someone to the position. […]
While Pittsburgh Steelers GM Omar Khan went to bat for Kenny Pickett at the NFL Combine, he acknowledged there would be some sort of competition.
Now that competition may go on behind Pickett who will likely be the starter, but it still lends credence to the idea that Pittsburgh will sign someone to the position.
GM Omar Khan noted as much, and didn't rule anything out in terms of acquisition:
All Doors Open
“There’s different avenues for us,” Khan said when asked about the routes for the Steelers to add a backup QB. “Draft, free agency, the trade market. I would say every one of those avenues is an option for us. I have an obligation to the players, to the front office, to every member of the Steelers Nation, to look at every option and every way of trying to improve this team and we’re going to do so.”
Now there has been talk of the Steelers being players in a trade for former top-10 pick and current Bears QB Justin Fields.
Khan was asked about it and had a very buttoned up answer:
“I’m not gonna go into details about the conversations that we’ve had,” said Khan when asked about a Justin Fields trade. “But like I mentioned earlier, I can tell you that I have an obligation to look at every avenue that’s out there to make us a better football team.”
With news that Fields has been taken off of betting boards and named a favorite to be traded to the Atlanta Falcons, the odds that were already low for Pittsburgh are now in a free fall.
But adding a capable backup like Ryan Tannehill is still very much on the table, and likely if the team is unable to sign Mason Rudolph, even though Khan gave a peek behind the curtain into that process as well:
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