Heading into the second game of his second season, Mason Rudolph is now the clear and unquestioned number two quarterback behind Ben Roethlisberger, which is just where the Pittsburgh Steelers wanted him to be. While he was already the backup for the season opener, head coach Mike Tomlin kept the threat of last year’s number two, Joshua Dobbs, in the back of his mind.
With Dobbs being dealt to the Jacksonville Jaguars for a fifth-round pick, that threat is now gone, but so is that locker room relationship.