Roman Wilson has had a rough first two years in the NFL. The Pittsburgh Steelers spent a third-round pick on him in 2024, but he\u2019s only caught 12 passes in two seasons. He missed most of his first year due to injuries, but even when he was healthy last year, he struggled, even getting benched near the end of the year.<\/p>\n
While Aaron Rodgers has praised Wilson a lot this offseason, he also recently critiqued the wideout for making a \u201crepeat mistake\u201d in practice.<\/a> Former NFL wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh took umbrage with Rodgers\u2019 words.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t like that,\u201d Houshmandzadeh said recently on the Speakeasy podcast.<\/a> \u201cJust say, \u2018Bad throw. We weren\u2019t on the same page.\u2019 When you are that great of a player, you always take responsibility. Because when you take the responsibility, everybody on the offensive side of the ball knows that Roman Wilson made the mistake.<\/p>\n \u201cYou take the responsibility of it as a quarterback, as a leader. That\u2019s what you do. I tell my son this. You never blame anybody else. It\u2019s always your fault if you think you\u2019re one of the better players. You don\u2019t blame anybody else. That\u2019s what I would\u2019ve liked to hear him say. \u2018That\u2019s on me. We weren\u2019t on the same page. We\u2019ll get it corrected.’\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s important to note that most of what Rodgers said about Wilson was positive. He said a lot of nice things about the Michigan product, including noting that he looks better this year compared to last year. Rodgers wasn\u2019t bashing Wilson.<\/p>\n However, Rodgers isn\u2019t dumb. He noted in that same session<\/a> that rookie Germie Bernard doesn\u2019t make repeat mistakes. It feels like he could\u2019ve been sending a message to Wilson.<\/p>\n It\u2019s fair to question Rodgers doing that when talking to the media, though. Maybe he could\u2019ve done things differently, like delivering the message to Wilson privately.<\/p>\n However, it\u2019s unclear what the exact dynamic between them is. Perhaps Rodgers feels like simply telling Wilson about his mistakes isn\u2019t working well enough, causing him to ratchet up the pressure by making public comments.<\/p>\n This is a big year for Wilson. The Steelers\u2019 receiver room is more crowded, leaving fewer opportunities available. If Wilson struggles this season, then he could be in danger of not making Pittsburgh\u2019s team next year.<\/p>\n Rodgers seems like he\u2019s going to give Wilson plenty of chances to prove himself, though. He was one of the Wilson\u2019s biggest supporters in training camp, targeting him early and often. Clearly, Rodgers hasn\u2019t given up on Wilson.<\/p>\n It\u2019s easy to focus on Rodgers calling Wilson out for a repeat mistake. However, it doesn\u2019t seem like Wilson has lost his quarterback\u2019s trust yet. Issues might start to pop up if that problem shows up during the regular season, but that\u2019s why Rodgers made those comments. It\u2019s okay if Wilson messes up in practice if he\u2019s sharper during games. We\u2019ll see how he responds<\/a> to Rodgers\u2019 message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roman Wilson has had a rough first two years in the NFL. The Pittsburgh Steelers spent a third-round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24192,20503,20504,27,29151,20396],"class_list":["post-44836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rome","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-roman-wilson","tag-rome","tag-speakeasy","tag-t-j-houshmandzadeh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}