PITTSBURGH -- Everything about being back at the Pittsburgh Steelers' UPMC Rooney Sports Complex is familiar to Mason Rudolph. The head coach, many of his teammates. the media and the uniforms are all the same.
Even the noise surrounding him -- and not just the rumble of the trains passing by the practice fields -- is something the quarterback has grown used to over five roller-coaster NFL seasons.
"That's nothing new to me," Rudolph said Tuesday when asked about the Aaron Rodgers-sized elephant in the quarterback room. "There's been constant noise that is the nature of the NFL, so I have been used to that for a long time now.