Steelers’ Mike Tomlin Reveals QB Plan for Seahawks Matchup
For a really long time, reports showed that Week 17 was the objective return date for Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett. However, all things being equal, it seems the Steelers might stay with the hot hand in Artisan Rudolph.
Steelers lead trainer Mike Tomlin told correspondents in December 26 that the group will start arrangements for their Week 17 matchup against the Seattle Seahawks with Rudolph as the beginning quarterback.
“We’re similarly situated with Kenny as we were a week ago. We’ll give him a couple of reps and sort of see where that leads us,” Tomlin told the media. ” Be that as it may, similarly as I said seven days prior here, Artisan Rudolph was planned to be the quarterback for the week, and we’ll see where Kenny is.
“We have similar mindset as we start this week.”
Rudolph made his initial beginning in over two years on December 23 against the Cincinnati Bengals. He gave the Steelers arguably their best quarterback performance of the season.
Against the Bengals, Rudolph finished 17 of 27 passes for 290 yards and 2 scores. Behind that exhibition, the Steelers crushed the Bengals, 34-11.
Steelers’ Mike Tomlin Says Artisan Rudolph ‘Got the Ball’ to Start Week 17 Arrangements
With their season on the edge, the Steelers at last got the quarterback play they required versus the Bengals. Rudolph turned into the principal Pittsburgh quarterback with in excess of 250 passing yards and 2 scores in a similar game since Ben Roethlisberger in Week 14 of 2021.
Following the game, Tomlin declined to get out whatever the group would do at quarterback for Week 17. Yet, as the Steelers start their prep for Seattle, business as usual behind community has continued as before.
Tomlin stated to reporters, “Obviously, we have a great deal more comfort because of what we’ve seen in stadium from Mason Rudolph, and that helps us.” Be that as it may, we actually are truly in a similar stance.
“He has the ball to begin the week, and we’ll see where Kenny is according to a portability point of view, and afterward sort of go from that point and plan step by step founded on the things that we see according to that viewpoint.”
Rudolph won for the first time since 2019 as the starting quarterback of the NFL on December 23. He is 6-4-1 out of 11 profession begins.
QB Kenny Pickett to Begin for Steelers If Sound?
The manner in which Tomlin named Rudolph the group’s beginning quarterback for Week 17, it seemed as if Pickett may as yet begin in the event that he ends up being sound.
However, Tomlin declined to elaborate on whether or not that is the situation.
Tomlin said, “I’m not into hypotheticals.” We’ll see what the exhibition resembles tomorrow. As of this moment, Mason holds the ball.
Pickett went through lower leg a medical procedure on December 4 in the wake of experiencing a right lower leg injury against the Arizona Cardinals. Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said that Pickett would be out of the hospital for two to four weeks after his surgery.
Pittsburgh’s matchup against the Seahawks will be 1 day short of the 4-week sign of Pickett’s a medical procedure.
NFL Organization’s Ian Rapoport refreshed Pickett’s status only preceding opening shot on December 23, saying that Pickett was “expected to be back” for Week 17.
It’s challenging to peruse whether Pickett has experienced a misfortune or on the other hand in the event that the Steelers are overall excessively mindful of his return from injury. It’s additionally conceivable Tomlin is slow-playing Pickett’s return so the group can see what Rudolph will do in his most memorable street start in almost three years.
