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Player of the Week

Fields is Digest Player of the Week

JUSTIN FIELDS
Quarterback

It wasn't necessarily pretty, and his final statistics were pedestrian. But what Justin Fields did in Sunday's 13-6 win over the Broncos in Denver was provide the Steelers with what they needed from their starting quarterback in that particular game: 60 minutes of turnover-free football.

Fields completed 13-of-20 (65 percent) for 117 yards, with 1 touchdown, no interceptions, and a rating of 97.3. Fields also rushed 8 times for 27 yards (3.4 average). Penalties, both on the Broncos for pass interference and on the Steelers that nullified completed passes and took a second touchdown pass off the board, robbed Fields of the kind of statistics that might have made him a hero among the fantasy football crowd, but he maintained his poise and did what he had to do to notch his second win in two starts in a Steelers uniform.

Fields is the Steelers Digest Player of the Week.

Also considered were George Pickens, who officially was credited with 2 catches for 29 yards, but not included in those numbers were a 37-yard defensive pass interference penalty he drew on CB Patrick Surtain, a 51-yard catch that was nullified by a holding penalty on Broderick Jones, and a 6-yard catch that he turned into a diving-for-the-pylon touchdown that was nullified by a penalty on Van Jefferson; T.J. Watt, who finished with 3 tackles, 1 sack, 1 pass defensed, 2 tackles for loss, and 2 hits on the quarterback; DeShon Elliott, who had a team-high 9 tackles, including 1 tackle for loss; Alex Highsmith, who had 4 tackles, 1 sack, and 2 tackles for loss; Cory Trice Jr., who had 2 tackles and an interception in the end zone; Damontae Kazee, who had 4 tackles and an interception to seal the game's outcome; and Najee Harris, who rushed for 69 yards on 17 carries (4.1 average) and caught 1 pass for 5 more yards.

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