About a week ago, the Pittsburgh Steelers got an offer they couldn’t refuse for third-year, third-string quarterback Joshua Dobbs. The Jacksonville Jaguars were willing to give up a fifth-round pick for him, and so they made the very rare move of making an in-season trade to send a player to another team, which I can’t frankly recall them doing before in my memory.
Outside of the value of the compensation, this move was enabled by two other things: the fact that Mason Rudolph had outperformed him; and the fact that they were comfortable with what they had seen from rookie Devlin Hodges since rookie minicamp, when he unseated Brogan Roback.