The 2019 season was certainly an interesting one for the Pittsburgh Steelers, if not entirely successful. And the most interesting thing about it was the man that they call Duck. Devlin Hodges came out of Samford as an undersized quarterback from a small school, ultimately going undrafted, which was expected.
The Steelers were the second team to which he was invited to participate in their rookie minicamp, and he ultimately showed enough on the field to earn a contract on the 90-man roster over Brogan Roback, who had been signed to a futures deal earlier that year.
The thing is, his legend didn’t stop growing until he ended up being the team’s starting quarterback—with the very obvious caveat that it took a severe elbow injury suffered by Ben Roethlisberger to make that possible.