Last Saturday was QB Mason Rudolph’s first opportunity to get on the field in a meaningful game in over two years. Of course, by then it didn’t really matter, but it set the stage for this week. Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin announced that he would start over Mitch Trubisky in their next game, barring a miraculous recovery from starter Kenny Pickett.
He can no doubt relate to Trubisky, having once been benched himself. He started eight games in 2019 as a second-year player following Ben Roethlisberger’s season-ending elbow injury. In the middle of that, he was benched as he struggled, in favor of then-rookie college free agent Devlin Hodges.