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Brooke Pryor, ESPN Employees Author
PITTSBURGH — Per week faraway from aggravating his coaching camp calf damage, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson mentioned he is “getting nearer and nearer” to a return.
“I am simply attempting to be sensible,” Wilson mentioned following Thursday’s apply. “Bought to do a whole lot of work at this time on the sphere and every part else, throwing and all that, so simply attempting to be sensible.” Wilson did not play within the season opener in Atlanta and was restricted in every apply following the aggravation.
Coach Mike Tomlin mentioned Tuesday the employees was being intentional and cautious of their method to working Wilson again in.
“We obtained a battery of some motion work for him scheduled for [Wednesday], after which as is our ordinary apply, we’ll meet with docs after [Wednesday’s] apply, and we’ll most likely have some extra readability then about what the remainder of the week seems to be like.”
Wilson initially injured the calf greater than a month in the past, and although he was affected person in rehabbing the damage throughout coaching camp, he acknowledged the frustration with the regular-season setback.
“I feel when it occurred in coaching camp, I used to be disenchanted,” Wilson mentioned. “I knew it was fairly sturdy, fairly good calf damage, and in order that was disappointing. However we stored our head up, we labored our butts off day-after-day within the coaching room. … We spent a whole lot of time simply to type of prepare, and so once I tweaked it once more it was like, ‘OK, yeah, we obtained to be sensible right here and never loopy push it too dangerous. So, I feel that was the irritating half. Clearly, I wish to be to be on the market in between the white traces with our teammates.”
Wilson warmed up early forward of the season opener in Atlanta, going by way of a sequence of throws earlier than figuring out that he would not play. That was a choice made at the side of Tomlin, he mentioned.
“I used to be mentally and bodily simply attempting to get there, to undergo the entire course of,” Wilson mentioned. “Coach and I talked on Sunday, and we felt prefer it wasn’t prepared but, attempting to be sensible. “I feel it was a smart move by way of we obtained confidence in our soccer staff, and that is a beauty of our staff. We obtained nice protection, we obtained nice particular groups and offensively we are able to do some actually particular issues, as properly. So, I believed that was an enormous win for us.”
With Justin Fields getting the beginning, Wilson spent the sport on the sideline because the emergency third quarterback, a task he’ll probably reprise Sunday as he returns to Denver six months after his former staff launched him two years right into a five-year, $242 million contract.
“Anyone who is aware of me, I at all times wish to go and play and that is how I get my thoughts prepared, my physique prepared for that, to play,” Wilson mentioned. “On the finish of the day, I imagine you bought to play dinged-up generally. I feel Coach, he is additionally and the trainers simply wish to be sensible, too, as properly simply because it is early within the season. I feel that if that is the final recreation of the season type of factor or a type of sorts of video games, we’re positively going.
“I feel proper now I wish to go, however we additionally, too, wish to be sensible, too, as properly.”
Requested whether or not he may present insights into his outdated staff, Wilson grinned.
“I obtained some perception for positive,” he mentioned.
