There really hasn’t been much that Devlin Hodges has done since May that the Pittsburgh Steelers have been displeased with. While that wasn’t initially enough for them to decide that he merited a roster spot, outright, over Joshua Dobbs, his quality of play and potential was enough for them to determine that they could trade Dobbs and bring Hodges back.
And he continued to show them enough that they made the decision to give him this opportunity to be the starter late in the season, following the injury to Ben Roethlisberger and the struggles of Mason Rudolph, who started about half the season.