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Scout's Eye with Matt Williamson: Howard's heartbreaking injury

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4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

How will Will Howard's injury affect his and the Steelers' immediate future?

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. I'm Matt Williamson. How's it going? I'm recording this Wednesday after a practice. We got one more, which I assume will be a banger padded practice tomorrow.

0:17.5

And then we all kind of disappear and the Steelers travel to Jacksonville. I'll preview that game for you at some point. Definitely review it in a big way. I'll be on the pre-game show. I'll be on the pre-pre-game show. I'm doing the post-game show. If you want to call in, we can chat. But I'm making this mostly a mailbag episode because I'm not going to record any tomorrow and then I'll preview the game, you know, things I want to look for and then review the game.

0:43.7

But the biggest news at a camp here, dinner time on Wednesday is Howard's going to miss some time.

0:50.6

You know, week to week is I think the terminology they used, which is not surprising at all.

0:55.6

He broke his pinky finger on his throwing hand. So this definitely sounds like a couple weeks.

1:02.7

And we covered this heavily yesterday. It's a real bummer because really the best thing about Howard

1:09.2

and the best thing about his development, to me, was going to be the

1:13.0

preseason games. You know, get him a ton of, ton of action in the preseason games, way more

1:17.9

than Rogers, Rudolph, Skyler, of course. And now that's very much in jeopardy. I'm sure he

1:23.9

won't play against the Jags. I don't know if we'll see him at all. So it would be great,

1:29.2

frankly, it'd be great to never see him during the season because your other guys are better in

1:34.9

doing well. It would have been great to see him a ton in the preseason and be super excited about it

1:40.9

for the future, for the down the low, know, for down the future, down the road.

1:45.6

But that's in jeopardy.

1:47.4

Now, Skyler gets a big bump in opportunity.

1:52.0

I would imagine he plays a lot more now in the preseason.

1:56.0

That doesn't really move the needle for me.

1:57.8

That doesn't excite me all that much.

2:00.0

I imagine Rudolph gets a little

2:02.8

bit more action just by necessity. Okay, he doesn't need it. I don't love it. I prefer he doesn't

2:09.1

get hurt either. And Rogers probably plays little to none. Now, I think it'll be telling if they sign

2:16.0

another arm.

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