{"id":37013,"date":"2022-06-27T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mason-rudolph-named-likeliest-candidate-to-be-steelers-backup-qb-over-kenny-pickett"},"modified":"2022-06-27T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:16:09","slug":"mason-rudolph-named-likeliest-candidate-to-be-steelers-backup-qb-over-kenny-pickett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mason-rudolph-named-likeliest-candidate-to-be-steelers-backup-qb-over-kenny-pickett","title":{"rendered":"Mason Rudolph named &#8216;likeliest candidate&#8217; to be Steelers&#8217; backup QB over Kenny Pickett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY SportsPittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has teased that he will hold a legitimate competition to name the successor to retired quarterback and future Hall of Famer Ben Roethlisberger during training camp and the preseason this summer. However, it&#8217;s widely assumed that free-agent signing Mitchell Trubisky would have to be downright disastrous during August exhibition games to lose the gig to either first-round draft selection Kenny Pickett or career backup Mason Rudolph. Last week, Steelers insider Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and ESPN&#8217;s Brooke Pryor said that the club could look to shop Rudolph to a quarterback-needy team before September so he can receive opportunities to play and also so that Pickett can enter Week 1 second on the depth chart behind only Trubisky. At least one analyst is predicting things could go differently among the Pittsburgh signal-callers. While ranking backup quarterbacks for a piece published Monday, Mike Kaye of Pro Football Network named Rudolph as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has teased that he will hold a legitimate competition to name the successor to retired quarterback and future Hall of Famer Ben Roethlisberger during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[181,11,58],"class_list":["post-37013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}