The Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback room looked much different this year than it had in a long time. The retirement of an 18-year starter will do that to a room, naturally, but two out of three in the room were different, with Mitch Trubisky brought on board before the team used its first-round draft pick on Kenny Pickett.
The plan seemed to be to give Pickett time to develop and not press him to start, and Trubisky did open the year under center—for three and a half games. The offense did struggle mightily with him during that time, admittedly, at which point head coach Mike Tomlin yanked him at halftime in favor of the rookie.