The Pittsburgh Steelers’ hands were forced by injury to make a pair of roster moves yesterday, calling up quarterback Paxton Lynch and running back Trey Edmunds, both veterans, from the practice squad.
The former in particular was necessary because the team only has one quarterback, rookie Devlin Hodges, on the 53-man roster who is healthy, with Mason Rudolph in the concussion protocol. Second-year running back Jaylen Samuels, however, is expected to miss about a month or so after suffering a knee injury on Sunday that prompted him to have surgery, so Edmunds had to be called up so they could have three running backs.