The Pittsburgh Steelers’ golden boy, rookie QB Will Howard, is back in action, and it’s no surprise to him, as it turns out. Despite landing on the Reserve/Injured List, it seems he’s known for a while that he would be back. It’s unclear if that was communicated to him when he first went on IR, but he certainly knew after Skylar Thompson joined him there.
“I definitely had an inkling,” Howard said about when he might be back, via the Steelers’ website. “They kept me in the loop and in the know on what we were doing.