{"id":69580,"date":"2024-09-08T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/pittsburgh-steelers-name-justin-fields-starting-qb-vs-falcons-amid-russell-wilson-injury\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T10:33:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T15:33:50","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-name-justin-fields-starting-qb-vs-falcons-amid-russell-wilson-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/pittsburgh-steelers-name-justin-fields-starting-qb-vs-falcons-amid-russell-wilson-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers name Justin Fields starting QB vs. Falcons amid Russell Wilson injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/justin-fields-69308\/\">Justin Fields<\/a><\/strong> will start for the Pittsburgh Steelers in their season-opening showdown against the Atlanta Falcons, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeGarafolo\/status\/1832801449748656507\">per the NFL Network\u2019s Mike Garafolo<\/a><\/strong>. Fellow Steelers QB <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/russell-wilson-102829\/\">Russell Wilson<\/a><\/strong> is still battling a calf injury that he reportedly suffered during training camp.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ian Rapoport, Wilson \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/news\/steelers-heading-toward-starter-justin-fields-vs-falcons-russell-wilson-injury-ian-rapoport\/\"><strong>barely did anything<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d on Friday at practice and was not on the field when reporters were viewing the team\u2019s practice. The Steelers and Falcons will clash at 1 p.m. ET. The game will air live on FOX.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prizepicks.onelink.me\/ivHR\/ON3\">CLICK HERE to go to PrizePicks and use code ON3 to receive a guaranteed $50 once you play $5 in lineups!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/news\/pittsburgh-steelers-name-justin-fields-starting-qb-vs-falcons-amid-russell-wilson-injury\/\">Pittsburgh Steelers name Justin Fields starting QB vs. Falcons amid Russell Wilson injury<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Fields will start for the Pittsburgh Steelers in their season-opening showdown against the Atlanta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}