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MAQB: Why the Steelers Selected Mitchell Trubisky as Big Ben’s Successor

A relatively average crop of free agents has started to come off the board, so in today’s MAQB, we’re going to cover some of the particulars with the bigger moves of the day.

Mitch Trubisky: Jamie Germano/USA Today Network; J.C. Jackson: Brett Davis/USA TODAY Sports; Christian Kirk: Gary A. Vasquez/USA TODAY Sports

• The Mitchell Trubisky reclamation project in Pittsburgh won’t be the first of its kind. Plenty of ex-first-round QBs have gotten second chances in new locales, and there have been high hopes for them. The truth is that it rarely actually works out that way (Steve Young, Vinny Testaverde, Trent Dilfer, Jim Harbaugh and the Steelers’ own Tommy Maddox would be notable exceptions).