Over the last calendar year, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has made some decisions that can be seen as curious at best.
One of these decisions saw him choose to let Mason Rudolph, a player who had spent four seasons with the Steelers and looked quite impressive at the end of the 2023 campaign, walk in free agency. Rudolph, their third option at the quarterback position in 2023, made only three starts, but led Pittsburgh to win each time he started.
Rudolph completed 74.3 percent of his throws overall for 719 yards and three touchdowns without an interception in his four appearances. Sure, he didn’t look elite by any means, and he struggled in Pittsburgh’s lone playoff game but he certainly played well when thrust into action. In fact, without his late-season heroics, there’s a chance that the Steelers wouldn’t have even made the playoffs…