Landry Jones’ Knowledge of Steelers’ System Gives Him Clear Edge over Mike Vick

October 21, 2015   ·   Andrea Hangst   ·   Jump to comments

It appears that the Pittsburgh Steelers are readying for the Landry Jones era to continue one more week. Jones, the Steelers' third-string quarterback since being drafted in Round 4 in 2013, took over for Mike Vick, who suffered a small hamstring tear in the team's eventual 25-13 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
Vick himself was in because of the knee injury suffered by starter Ben Roethlisberger in Week 3. Before then, Jones had never dressed for a regular-season game; though he had spent his entire Steelers career up to this point on the team's 53-man roster, he was never among the 46 players active for gamedays. With Roethlisberger hurt, though, he became No. 2 on the quarterback depth chart. 
To say Jones provided a spark on Sunday would be an understatement. Vick had six total yards on his three completions, and, after factoring in the one sack he took that cost the Steelers five yards, just one net passing yard total. Of the 169 total passing yards the...

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