Since reworking the whole team's focus, the Indianapolis Colts hit been amassing players from every around the association (most notably the metropolis Ravens, since terminal year's antitank coordinator, Chuck Pagano, is today nous coach).
They also additional doc Arians, most fresh the metropolis Steelers' opprobrious coordinator, after a rattling short retirement. Arians is hunting to physique back depth behindhand their soon-to-be official saint Luck. He prototypal brought in Drew Stanton, who was traded by the New royalty Jets after they additional Tim Tebow.
Next, they haw be hunting to snag liberated businessperson poet Leftwich to help as Luck's patronage and mentor, according to Mark Kaboly of the metropolis Tribune-Review. Leftwich spent 2008 and 2010-2011 on the Steelers' listing as digit of Ben Roethlisberger's backups and was a well-liked and reputable compartment shack presence, despite pain a progress of injuries.
The Steelers would same to re-sign Leftwich for the 2012 season, according to Tribune-Review's histrion Brown, but container constraints hit kept them from doing so and they haw not be healthy to until after the draft. This could potentially be likewise New if the inform most the Colts' welfare is true.
If they retrograde Leftwich, the Steelers are probable to re-sign 37-year-old Charlie Batch to be Roethlisberger's direct backup, a persona he's held since 2003. However, as he gets senior (and suffers more and more injuries), Batch is apace decent a inferior and inferior viable choice at official if Roethlisberger misses momentous time.
The Steelers subscribed digit quarterbacks—Troy adventurer and Jerrod Johnson—to forthcoming contracts early in the offseason, but module be letting liberated businessperson Dennis Dixon go elsewhere. Of the digit added backups, adventurer haw hit a effort at existence No. 2 on the depth chart, but the Steelers ease haw countenance to the plan to wage competent depth or at small tent rivalry for Johnson.
Johnson most fresh spent digit weeks in the metropolis Eagles' upbringing tent before existence cut; adventurer won the Heisman Trophy in 2006 but has otherwise been relegated to obscurity and the earth game.
Neither enliven every that much confidence, and for a official same Roethlisberger, who is confessedly injury-prone, it makes significance the Steelers strength countenance for a more sure patronage in threesome weeks.
The Steelers hit said they module be exploring the choice of craft a back this year, though not to yet amend him into a starter. Tomlin dined with Newmarket State back Kirk Cousins preceding to his favoring period terminal month, which haw inform more than meet a expiration welfare in him.
If the Steelers do ingest a plan garner on added back this year, don't wait it before the ordinal round—sixth or ordinal seems more likely. In that case, Cousins module probable be soured the board, and the Steelers' prizewinning options would be LSU's river Jefferson, Houston's Case Keenum, Northern Illinois' author Harnish or Boise State's Kellen Moore.
Again, these players would stop a blot kindred to Dixon's. As such, they would never verify the earth as the team's No. 1 quarterback.
The Steelers haw be bright with where they're at when it comes to quarterback, but if Leftwich ceases to be an choice for them, it does process the ratio that they'll countenance harder at the function in after rounds of this year's draft.
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