The Pittsburgh Steelers will be without their second starting quarterback of the season on Sunday, and it comes as a direct result of a hit from Baltimore Ravens safety Earl Thomas, which led to a scary moment in the team’s last game as teammates watched Mason Rudolph lie prone and unconscious for several minutes.
Rudolph was making his third career start due to the season-ending elbow injury that put Ben Roethlisberger on the Reserve/Injured List after the second game of the year. Rudolph has as of yet been unable to clear the concussion protocol as a result of that hit from Thomas, which means that rookie undrafted free agent Devlin Hodges will start—and Paxton Lynch will dress as his backup.