Throughout the 2025 NFL season, SB Nation’s Doug Farrar will write about the game’s Secret Superstars — those players whose performances might slip under the radar for whatever reasons. It’s time to take a look at what quarterback Justin Fields did for the New York Jets in their narrow loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. Far from the first-round draft bust he had been portrayed to be, Fields looked like a quarterback in (nearly) complete command of his new offense.

Justin Fields’ NFL career had devolved to the point where nobody expected much from him at all.

The 11th overall pick in the 2021 draft out of Ohio State had three seasons with the Chicago Bears in which the results were more unimpressive than not, and while it wasn’t all Fields’ fault — Chicago’s offenses at the time u

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