It wasn’t easy, Mason Rudolph acknowledges, serving as a No. 3 quarterback and not playing in meaningful football games for the first autumn of his competitive life. But as his rookie season with the Pittsburgh Steelers was ending, Rudolph was able to reflect on how far he came in 2018.
“I was telling my college coach that I talk to a lot, beginning of the season I was like, ‘Wow, NFL football, it’s crazy,’ ” Rudolph said. “And then the middle of the season, I was like, ‘I’m really starting to understand this, just the way the week flows, to game day.’
“And then the last couple weeks (of the season), it was, ‘I can play now if I had to.’ ” ...........
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