The Pittsburgh Steelers have scored 30-plus points twice this season. They happen to have come in the past two weeks with third-stringer Mason Rudolph starting at quarterback. The offense did not manage to put up that many points in any of Kenny Pickett’s 12 starts, nor in Mitch Trubisky’s two. Pickett has produced 30-plus points of offense exactly once in 24 career starts, a loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Yet what he did manage was to win games, even if they weren’t pretty. He is 14-6 as a starter when you remove the games in which he played fewer than half the snaps (a total of four losses).