We now know a little bit more about the defective football that was evidently used during the Pittsburgh Steelers Thursday night preseason opener against the Philadelphia Eagles.
According to Steelers rookie quarterback Mason Rudolph, the defective football incident happened with him in the game during the third quarter of the Thursday night preseason opener in Philadelphia.
“I did,” Rudolph said Saturday when asked if he immediately realized he had been snapped a defective football. “I got the ball and the thing was completely flat, like, to where it would not have been an advantage.