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🏈 Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph welcomes competition for the starting QB position.
“Competition is so normal. I’m so used to it now. Every team’s adding quarterbacks every year, it’s just normal mode of operation,” Rudolph said on the Kaboly + Mack podcast. “I learned a long time ago, you know, who it is, and then financial compensation, will really tell you what’s gonna go down as far as the depth chart.”
Rudolph said he’ll continue to work regardless of the outcome at QB.
“All I can really do, as cliche and annoying as it sounds, is just keep having a great spring and enjoying working with the receivers, learning the offense, making the most of every rep I can get,” Rudolph said. “That’s what I did in 2023; that’s what I’ve done my whole career, and you get opportunities, and you’ve just got to be ready to capitalize when they come. If that means starting or backing up, I can do that whole song and dance, and I’m confident that I can play well, win games, when my number’s called. So I’m gonna keep taking it day by day and we’ll see what happens.”
🏈 The mayor of Cleveland tells the FOX 8 I-Team that keeping the Cleveland Browns on the lakefront is not the city’s top priority.
“There are more important priorities than the Cleveland Browns,” Mayor Justin Bibb told the I-Team during an interview Tuesday. He cited plans for a makeover of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and other downtown development.
The Browns have proposed building an enclosed stadium in Brook Park. Browns Owner Jimmy Haslam has told the I-Team it would be one of the largest projects ever built in Ohio. Gov. Mike DeWine also said it would be good to have a domed stadium in Ohio.
“But, it’s important that the city of Cleveland is not left empty-handed,” Bibb said. “That we don’t have an abandoned stadium downtown.”
Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb said there are more important priorities than the Browns 😳 #DawgPound pic.twitter.com/ndEhlJ63JS
— BIGPLAY (@BIGPLAY) May 20, 2025
🏈 Ian O’Connor, who wrote Aaron Rodgers’ autobiography, predicts that the four-time league MVP will be in a Steelers uniform by June 10.
“I do think there will be a happy ending, at least for him, and we will find out for the Steelers and their fan base. If I had $100 to put down, my feeling is he will be in uniform June 10th for the start of the mandatory minicamp,” O’Connor said on 93.7 The Fan.
🏈 Ten teams voted to keep the tush push in the game — Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots, Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints and Tennessee Titans.
The Steelers voted in favor of banning the tush push, but team president Art Rooney II is not too concerned about it.
“I don’t think it’s...
