Heading into Week 12, there were more than a few Pittsburgh Steelers fans who wanted to see Mason Rudolph under center against the Chicago Bears—and I'll admit that I, cautiously, was one of them. But it wasn't because I'm a believer in Rudolph; it was because I didn't want to see Aaron Rodgers take the field.
Rodgers was coming off arguably the worst month of football in his NFL career, in which we saw his production dip drastically in five consecutive games. To make matters worse, the nearly 42-year-old quarterback suffered a fractured left wrist in the Steelers' Week 11 contest against the Cincinnati Bengals, and Mike Tomlin didn't view him as healthy enough to suit up against the Bears.