Scout's take: Assessing Steelers starting QB Mason Rudolph
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Former NFL scout Matt Williamson, who is based in the Pittsburgh area, writes about the league from an X's and O's perspective. Ben Roethlisberger’s season is over. An elbow injury has sent him to injured reserve, leaving second-year quarterback Mason RudScout's take: Assessing Steelers starting QB Mason Rudolph
Former NFL scout Matt Williamson, who is based in the Pittsburgh area, writes about the league from an X's and O's perspective. Ben Roethlisberger’s season is over. An elbow injury has sent him to injured reserve, leaving second-year quarterback Mason Rudolph as Pittsburgh’s starting quarterback for the remainder of the 2019 season and maybe beyond. Here are five key points about the 24-year-old QB out of Oklahoma State: 1. Below-average arm strength There is a misconception about Rudolph that he must be a power thrower because he is a big, strong quarterback who operates almost entirely out of the pocket. In fact, his arm strength is a little below average for an NFL starter. Rudolph doesn’t have a bad arm, but it doesn’t come close to Roethlisberger’s. We will see this most when Rudolph’s feet are not set and he is forced to throw off-platform. This could be a problem when the weather inevitably gets rough in Pittsburgh and at AFC North road games. We really don’t know how well Rudolph handles poor weathe Read more