It doesn’t seem likely—even less so, reasonable—for third-year veteran Kendrick Green to enter the 2023 season as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ reserve center. Indeed, the odds of him even being on the roster are dwindling, though he remains in the running.
The problem with playing the center position specifically is that one lowlight can be damning. There is simply one job that you must do very well every time, and that is snapping the ball accurately back to the quarterback.
That is the one thing he failed to do on Saturday night against the Buffalo Bills. It was just one snap out of 54, but it immediately became the most significant as the ball sailed to the right of QB Mason Rudolph, the second time the duo had a busted snap exchange—the second time Rudolph had to scramble backward to try to retrieve the ball.