And thus the children cried and the angelic chorus sounded.
I’m referring, of course, to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ re-signing of third-string quarterback Devlin Hodges earlier this week to the practice squad. A college free agent, the Samford graduate was initially signed after being invited to participate in rookie minicamp.
Typically a spot for a proverbial ‘fourth arm’, Hodges showed better than Brogan Roback and then continued to catch people’s eyes in practice, enough that the Steelers gave him a very serious look throughout training camp and the preseason.
While they didn’t immediate result in a job after the preseason was over, it did help enable them to feel comfortable trading third-string quarterback Joshua Dobbs if the right offer came along, and that didn’t take long.