If Mike Tomlin should be good at anything by now, it’s knowing the right buttons to push with the right players.

But his starting quarterback has been at this a long time, too, and has done his share of button-pushing. Aaron Rodgers wants to coax every bit of potential out of any offensive player the Steelers put around him, so when it comes to second-year receiver Roman Wilson — who may as well be rookie receiver Roman Wilson — the NFL’s oldest player is trying to pull the puppet-master strings whenever he can.

“I just gotta get Roman out of his head a little bit because he’s such a good kid,” Rodgers said early this month. “He cares so much about — whether it's my approval, or if he's doing it right, and he's just got to trust himself because he's so damn talented. The more he can play

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