It’s not overselling it to say that, up to this point, tomorrow’s game is the most important of the season for the Pittsburgh Steelers. They find themselves entering the game in a four-way tie for the second and final wildcard spot, and facing a divisional opponent on a hot streak who has already beaten them and is only one game behind.
The Steelers cannot afford to drop this one to the Cleveland Browns. And, amazing as it sounds, that’s why they are turning to college free agent rookie Devlin Hodges to man the quarterback position, opting for the Samford product over Mason Rudolph, the second-year guy who has started most of the year, on whom they had a first-round draft grade.