The need for a team to start more than two quarterbacks in a single season happens more frequently than you might think. The Pittsburgh Steelers have done it on several occasions throughout the Ben Roethlisberger era. The 2019 season proved to be just the latest, and this rendition included a quarterback starting who did not even make the initial 53-man roster.
That would be the rookie undrafted free agent Devlin Hodges, an FCS product out of Samford. He attended the Steelers’ rookie minicamp on an invite basis, made the 90-man roster, and impressed throughout the offseason, but was released in favor of Mason Rudolph and Joshua Dobbs during the roster cuts.