The Steelers put up 28 points against the Bears and lost with Mason Rudolph at quarterback—though the offense only scored 21 itself. So how did the longtime veteran backup perform? Charlie Batch, another longtime veteran Steelers backup quarterback himself, believes he did…okay, or thereabouts.
Commenting on the game on his Snap Count Show with Trai Essex, he assessed Rudolph with a middling grade. Though he first offered somewhere between a C+ and a B-, he settled on the latter. His chief reason for that grade centered, really, on three plays.
“When you turn the football over twice, that’s on you”, Batch said of Rudolph, regardless of (most) circumstances.