The Pittsburgh Steelers won their second game of 2019 in Week 6 with Devlin Hodges at quarterback because Mason Rudolph remained in the NFL’s concussion protocol. This isn’t breaking news, or even news at all, but then came reports of Rudolph being cleared by an independent neurologist. In this scenario it was the Steelers, not the NFL’s concussion protocol, which kept Rudolph out of the game on Sunday Night Football.
According to reports, the team had prepared a game plan built around Hodges, and they didn’t want to stray away from that plan.