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Steelers rookie’s strange injury has even doctors scratching heads

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If you thought Will Howard's hand injury seemed bizarre, you're not alone. The Pittsburgh Steelers' rookie quarterback and 2025 sixth-round pick fractured a bone in his right hand on a simple center exchange late in Steelers training camp. We didn't think much of it at first, but the strange injury even has doctors baffled.

Howard recently went on the Down 2 Business podcast, where he finally told the full story of how he broke his hand.

"It was an under-center snap was how it happened," Howard said. "The doctors were like, 'We've never seen anything like this happen.