Pittsburgh Steelers sign QB Logan Woodside after Will Howard injury

In response to backup quarterback Will Howard‘s hand injury (which he suffered on Tuesday), the Pittsburgh Steelers have signed quarterback Logan Woodside to a one-year contract. Pittsburgh also signed guard Andrus Peat and waived long snapper Tucker Addington and guard Nick Broeker.

Woodside has seen game action in four NFL seasons with two different teams (Tennessee Titans and the Atlanta Falcons). He boasts 13 career games played with 34 passing yards and no touchdowns.

We have signed G Andrus Peat and QB Logan Woodside to one-year contracts and waived LS Tucker Addington and G Nick Broeker. @BordasLaw

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Howard suffered a broken finger, Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin told reporters Wednesday. He suffered the injury during Tuesday’s practice, and NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported he is expected to miss three weeks as a result.

Tomlin didn’t provide an exact timeline for Howard to come back, but added surgery does not appear to be an option at this point. However, he confirmed the quarterback is out for this week’s preseason opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

“Regarding Will Howard’s hand injury, he’s got a broken finger,” Tomlin said, via Steelers.com’s Bob Labriola. “It can be characterized as week-to-week. He’s looking at his options, and I may have more information when it’s definitive, but he’s certainly out this week. It appears to be non-surgical, and so we’ll see where the road leads us there.”

The Steelers selected Howard in the sixth round of the 2025 NFL Draft after a decorated college career at Kansas State and Ohio State. He led the Buckeyes to a national championship in his lone season with the program in 2024 as he threw for 4,010 yards and 35 touchdowns.

Woodside and Howard will open season behind Aaron Rodgers

Future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers will open the season as Pittsburgh’s starting quarterback, as he departed the New York Jets in free agency this offseason. The Super Bowl winning quarterback is coming off his age 41 season, in which he passed for 3,897 yards, 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.

“Pittsburgh is one of the cornerstone franchises in the NFL,” Rodgers said on The Pat McAfee Show. “Everybody knows who they are. There’s only a few of them, but it’s just different here. There’s a level of expectation based on the excellence that’s happened here, where you kind of come in and you expect to fall in the line, to embody what it means to be a Steeler and I really appreciate that, because I’ve been in Green Bay for 18 years, and it’s the same thing there.”

Pittsburgh opens its 2025 season on the road against Rodgers’ prior team, the New York Jets, on Sept. 7.

On3’s Nick Schultz contributed to this report.