Steelers HC Mike Tomlin called 'nitwit' for Russell Wilson injury

Mike Tomlin has been called a lot of things. But “nitwit?” That’s taking things a little too far.

For his role in Russell Wilson‘s early training camp injury, bigger-than-life Pittsburgh media personality Mark Madden called Tomlin a nitwit. It wasn’t that he directed Wilson to take part in the sled push conditioning drill, only that he allowed it.

“Head coach Mike Tomlin is no less of a nitwit for allowing it to happen,” Madden wrote in his most recent TribLive column.

Wilson didn’t go unscathed in Madden’s spoutings, either, pointing out that Ben Roethlisberger would’ve emphatically denied the directive by head strength and conditioning coach Paul Matusz.

Can you picture Roethlisberger taking on a sled?!

“Wilson is no genius for doing it. The starting quarterback can overrule the strength coach.”

It happened, and the Steelers seem unconcerned about Wilson having suffered anything serious from the mishap. As long as Wilson returns to practice as expected this week without a hitch, everything is right with the world and Madden should take back his name-calling.