JUSTIN FIELDS
Quarterback
It wasn't necessarily pretty, and his final statistics were pedestrian. But what Justin Fields did in Sunday's 13-6 win over the Broncos in Denver was provide the Steelers with what they needed from their starting quarterback in that particular game: 60 minutes of turnover-free football.
Fields completed 13-of-20 (65 percent) for 117 yards, with 1 touchdown, no interceptions, and a rating of 97.3. Fields also rushed 8 times for 27 yards (3.4 average). Penalties, both on the Broncos for pass interference and on the Steelers that nullified completed passes and took a second touchdown pass off the board, robbed Fields of the kind of statistics that might have made him a hero among the fantasy football crowd, but he maintained his poise and did what he had to do to notch his second win in two starts in a Steelers uniform.
Fields is the Steelers Digest Player of the Week.
Also considered were George Pickens, who officially was credited with 2 catches for 29 yards, but not included in those numbers were a 37-yard defensive pass interference penalty he drew on CB Patrick Surtain, a 51-yard catch that was nullified by a holding penalty on Broderick Jones, and a 6-yard catch that he turned into a diving-for-the-pylon touchdown that was nullified by a penalty on Van Jefferson; T.J. Watt, who finished with 3 tackles, 1 sack, 1 pass defensed, 2 tackles for loss, and 2 hits on the quarterback; DeShon Elliott, who had a team-high 9 tackles, including 1 tackle for loss; Alex Highsmith, who had 4 tackles, 1 sack, and 2 tackles for loss; Cory Trice Jr., who had 2 tackles and an interception in the end zone; Damontae Kazee, who had 4 tackles and an interception to seal the game's outcome; and Najee Harris, who rushed for 69 yards on 17 carries (4.1 average) and caught 1 pass for 5 more yards.
