Pro Football Talk duo Mike Florio and Chris Simms have both made the same claim when it comes to Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and his decision to name a starting quarterback.

This preseason has turned into something of a headache for Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, as he has to do something that he has never had to do in his 15 previous years in charge of the team, and that’s to pick a starting quarterback.

In all the years previously, he’s been able to rely on Ben Roethlisberger to be under centre for them, but following his retirement this past offseason, they needed to find a new man. Mitch Trubisky came in as a free agent and seemed like he was going to be the man to lead them.

But then they drafted Kenny Pickett in the first round, and things changed quickly, as it essentially put a time limit on how long it would be before he would take over. Now in some cases, that could be a number of years, as was the case with Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay, as he sat as the backup to Brett Favre for three years before becoming the starter.

But the play of both quarterbacks in preseason made things a lot more difficult than they perhaps should have been.

A very close run race

As stats show, neither quarterback really pulled ahead in the battle to be named the starter, as they were both very impressive with what they were able to accomplish, with both men having to work both with and against first-string players and second-string options from their opponents at various points throughout the past few weeks:

But with the first week of the season fast approaching, Tomlin has been very shy in revealing what he intends to do with the position:

And it’s that stance that Mike Florio and Chris Simms believe will be impossible to maintain for too much longer.

What have they said?

Speaking on Pro Football Talk (starting at the 1:00 mark), the two men believed that it was going to be more or less impossible for him to keep the news of who will start a secret, because there are far too many moving pieces involved in running a team that means it will be hard to keep the news in-house for too much longer:

Trubisky is currently listed as the team’s starter on their depth chart, and the belief is that with Trubisky being the starter for all preseason games, he will hold onto that role for the foreseeable future, but until it’s confirmed, it isn’t confirmed. 

And Tomlin could save a whole lot of fuss and questioning if he just gave everyone a straight answer as soon as possible.