Rudolph Ranked Inside Top 10 Backup QBs In Nfl

[Shoes]

He's ahead of Drew Lock & Jordan Love, Justin Fields & Trey Lance.


https://steelersdepot.com/2021/09/st...up-qbs-in-nfl/

[Edman]

A Stirring the pot article if there ever was one.

Expect the Mason calls to get louder and louder if the Offense continues to suck Sunday.

[Steeler-in-west]

He played really well against the browns in the season finale last year.

[Mojouw]

It's possible that be a pretty good backup while also not being a great starter.

At least that's what Gradkowski, Holcomb, and Hoeyer all called and told me.

[Fire Goodell]

I'd say that's about right. Considering the bottom 10 of starting QBs in the NFL are pretty much a list of what you'd call 'trash qb's' or washed up

I honestly don't know what Miami sees in Tua, other than just athletic talent. I don't think he'll ever be an NFL QB. Dude's basically samoan tebow

[DesertSteel]

He has 5 wins as a fill-in starter. How many do those other guys have?

[Edman]

He played really well against the browns in the season finale last year.

A young quarterback improving? Impossible. I thought all the good quarterbacks had this mysterious thing called "it" and you either have it or you don't. Everyone knows QB's stay bad when they enter the league and cannot get improve or get better.

[Mojouw]

A young quarterback improving? Impossible. I thought all the good quarterbacks had this mysterious thing called "it" and you either have it or you don't. Everyone knows QB's stay bad when they enter the league and cannot get improve or get better.

You can get better and still not have "it".

Rudolph could develop for another decade and still might not look like a good starter!

[86WARD]

He has 5 wins as a fill-in starter. How many do those other guys have?

With 4 losses. So 5-4 as a starter. Those in the know say the “standard bar” for an NFL backup is to go .500 while the starter is out.

[Steeler-in-west]

You can get better and still not have "it".

Rudolph could develop for another decade and still might not look like a good starter!

A decade? He’s already starting to look like a very good backup, if he strings together a few good games - he can enter the starter conversation

Stan Humphries, Dave Kreig sat on the bench for a while and eventually became good starters

[Mojouw]

A decade? He’s already starting to look like a very good backup, if he strings together a few good games - he can enter the starter conversation

Stan Humphries, Dave Kreig sat on the bench for a while and eventually became good starters

Sure. Or he could not. The point, badly made, was that guys that have "it" don't generally spend much time as back-up QBs. Guys that don't have "it" can develop into high quality back-ups but usually flop as starters.

Rudolph looks like a guy who can have a long NFL career as a rock solid back-up QB but never really develops into a viable starting option.

[st33lersguy]

What's so ridiculous about it? He plays well fresh off the bench. This is something I have observed with my own two eyes. People like to say he's trash because of 2019. Well he he played worse and worse the more consecutive games he had to play, but that's why he is a backup anyway. Of course piss poor blocking, having a bunch of no. 2 WRs at best, possible effects from the cheap shot by Earl Thomas, and probably the most inept offensive mind to ever step foot on an NFL field as the OC/playcaller likely also had some things to do with some of his poor games he had

[DesertSteel]

What's so ridiculous about it? He plays well fresh off the bench. This is something I have observed with my own two eyes. People like to say he's trash because of 2019. Well he he played worse and worse the more consecutive games he had to play, but that's why he is a backup anyway. Of course piss poor blocking, having a bunch of no. 2 WRs at best, possible effects from the cheap shot by Earl Thomas, and probably the most inept offensive mind to ever step foot on an NFL field as the OC/playcaller likely also had some things to do with some of his poor games he had

That's called the DC's knowing his weaknesses.

[Edman]

Mason fell apart in 2019 in the same way Ben fell apart in 2020 and these first two games. Defenses caught on to what the offense was doing and started stacking the box daring Mason to beat them deep, which he couldn't.

The difference is that Mason has gotten much better throwing downfield since then while Ben has shown signs of decline in his intermediate/deep game.

If it were 2019, I'd agree that Mason is a bottom-tier backup. But the 2020 Browns game showed that he can sling it past ten yards consistently and it isn't a physical limitation.

[teegre]

What's so ridiculous about it? He plays well fresh off the bench. This is something I have observed with my own two eyes. People like to say he's trash because of 2019. Well he he played worse and worse the more consecutive games he had to play, but that's why he is a backup anyway. Of course piss poor blocking, having a bunch of no. 2 WRs at best, possible effects from the cheap shot by Earl Thomas, and probably the most inept offensive mind to ever step foot on an NFL field as the OC/playcaller likely also had some things to do with some of his poor games he had

^^^THIS^^^

[Edman]

The Mason Rudolph talk just got a helluva lot louder.

[DesertSteel]

The Mason Rudolph talk just got a helluva lot louder.

It doesn't matter. Tomlin/Colbert/Rooney don't have the collective balls to bench Ben.