From April to September, it was a tense time for Joshua Dobbs, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ third-year quarterback. That’s because the former fourth-round pick was well aware of how vulnerable his spot on the 53-man roster had become after the team used a third-round selection in April of 2018 on Mason Rudolph at the quarterback position.
Dobbs spent his rookie year in 2017 as the third-string quarterback, routinely an inactive in that capacity with Landry Jones as the backup. The vast majority anticipated that Jones would remain the backup with Rudolph as the number three as a rookie before becoming the backup in his second season.