While nothing is official, Mitch Trubisky has long been acknowledged and accepted as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ presumptive starting quarterback entering the 2022 season.
The team is ostensibly waging a quarterback battle in training camp between himself, Mason Rudolph, and first-round pick Kenny Pickett, but it’s been widely reported as being Trubisky’s job to lose, and he has operated as the first-string quarterback since OTAs.
He didn’t know the Steelers would be drafted Pickett a month after he signed with the team as an unrestricted free agent, nor did the team, of course, even if he knew when he signed that they could add to the room.