Winners and losers from Steelers Saturday night training camp practice

The Pittsburgh Steelers have historically held a “Friday Night Lights” practice during training camp but this year the team was forced to move it to Saturday. It didn’t stop nearly 10,000 fans from showing up to get a closer look at the team as they head into prep for the team’s first preseason game.

Here are the winners and losers from Saturday’s practice.

With every deep completion Allar throws, he endears himself more and more to the fanbase and puts pressure on Will Howard. Allar has made up all the ground he lost to Howard in minicamp and frankly has overtaken him in terms of optimism that he can be the team’s starting quarterback at some point.

Jaylen Warren and Kaleb Johnson both had fumbles on Saturday night, which is a bad sign. Nothing to panic about but with Warren battling Rico Dowdle for reps and Johnson fighting to make the team, these errors are magnified.

Even as a seventh-round rookie, nothing seems too big for safety Robert Spears-Jennings. On Saturday, the team asked him to move to slot cornerback and he did so without hesitation. It really feels like the rookie is being set up for a fairly significant role on defense this season.

I’ll be the first to admit, I thought Dunker would be further along by now. But on Saturday he showed that this transition to the NFL and a new position is going to take longer than anticipated.

Jones’s trajectory continues to point up as he readies himself for the season and recovers from last season’s neck injury. He has had a strong camp, and on Saturday night showed why the team selected him in the first round.

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