It has been a long, painful journey for the Steelers at the quarterback position. It started with a hall of famer, followed by a backup with some promise, and is now ending with an undrafted free agent who has no business in the league. The Pittsburgh Steelers are about to take the field Sunday with their worst quarterback combo in nearly fifty years.
Mike Tomlin has two choices at quarterback for Sunday’s must win game versus the Ravens. Choice number one is the incumbent Devlin Hodges. All “Duck” has done recently is mange to throw six interceptions in his last six quarters. Hodges got away with a number of iffy passes early on, but now those 50/50 balls are turning into interceptions at an alarming rate. His limitations with arm strength and size have finally caught up to him.
Option B for Mike Tomlin is Paxton Lynch. This is a quarterback who hasn’t taken a regular season snap in over two years. Lynch was a first round pick by the Denver Broncos in 2016. He appeared in five games over two seasons with the Broncos. John Elway would go on to sign free agent Case Keenum in 2018, making Lynch expendable. Lynch’s career stats are nothing to write home about. In five career games he has 792 yards passing, with four touchdowns and four interceptions. What Lynch does bring to the table is real NFL tools. The former first round pick stands at 6’7″ tall, and provides pro-caliber arm strength as well.
So there it is, the choice no head coach would ever want to make. The playoffs are on the line, and Tomlin must choose the lesser of two evils. At this point Paxton Lynch has to be given an opportunity to see what he can do. Devlin Hodges has clearly lost his confidence, and with it the magic he brought to the team for a few weeks. Mike Tomlin has done a great job switching his quarterbacks at just the right time to squeeze out every possible victory. It’s time for him to pull one more rabbit out of his hat and go with Paxton Lynch on Sunday.
Devlin Hodges has no business in the league?!?!?! You have no business trying to be a journalist!!!!!!!! Duck has shown promise as well as ROOKIE mistakes. He has good arm strength but the OC is preparing a game plan that will allow him to get more comfortable in the pocket. He hasn’t thrown a lot of long balls because the game plan hasn’t called for it. YES he has thrown 6 INT the last 2 games but that doesn’t mean he isn’t capable of running the offense. You only get a Big Ben, John Elway, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Tom Brady once in a lifetime.
Please don’t make comments on things which you haven’t the slightest idea what you are talking about. Hodges has very below average arm strength, what exactly are you watching??
PM… and you know this to be a fact about Devlin’s arm strength as being *not* real NFL caliber tools? How do you know? Come on dude. If Devlin did not have NFL caliber tools in his toolkit… HOW did he make the team?
Comments liked yours are really just a backhand slap at the coaching… Stop it.
I know from watching him. And from the fact nobody drafted him and he was cut and never would have returned if Ben hadn’t gotten hurt. It’s not a slap at the coaching staff, it was a desperation move