The Pittsburgh Steelers have seen enough from rookie quarterback Devlin Hodges where, provided that he plays well enough, they’re not going to have him looking over his shoulder constantly worrying about his job. While they inform him every Tuesday morning that he is going to start, it’s clear that they will be the case unless he really bottoms out, in which case he’ll be pulled mid-game, as Mason Rudolph was.
When Mike Tomlin first named him the starter for the Cleveland Browns game and was asked for the rationale behind that, he said, “he didn’t kill us”.