Sunday may not have met much to the Pittsburgh Steelers as a team. But it meant a lot to guys like Kevin Rader. Rader appeared in his first NFL game and played 24 total snaps. 12 on offense, 12 on special teams. Those latter twelve snaps especially impressed Mike Tomlin. Rader finished the day with three tackles on special teams, more than enough to catch his coaches eye and potentially put him in the mix of the Steelers’ playoff run.
“We did get some quality contributions from people in expanded roles,” Tomlin said during his Tuesday presser.