It’s not very often over the course of the past decade and a half that we have seen the Pittsburgh Steelers pull a quarterback for performance issues in the middle of a game. Because you don’t pull a franchise quarterback when he’s struggling. If you pull him for performance, he’s not a franchise guy.
Mason Rudolph is not a franchise guy, at least not right now, and perhaps never will be. So he got yanked one drive into the third quarter earlier today, and that decision by head coach Mike Tomlin opens the can of worms about what happens moving forward, especially in light of the fact that his replacement, Devlin Hodges, sparked the comeback and victory.