The Pittsburgh Steelers will be fielding an offense of nameless gray faces tomorrow afternoon against the Cincinnati Bengals. There will be no Ben Roethlisberger. There will be no JuJu Smith-Schuster, no James Conner, no Maurkice Pouncey, even, for that matter. Actually, the player with the most name recognition on offense who will be on the field is either Alejandro Villanueva or David DeCastro, their Pro Bowl left tackle and right guard, respectively.
Well…lots of people know the name of Mason Rudolph now, largely thanks to Myles Garrett, but that’s not quite the spirit in which I intended to refer to players as ‘nameless’; rather, it is to say that they are relatively unaccomplished in their profession.