Steelers’ Mason Rudolph named starter for HOF Sport; Najee Harris will play in all four preseason games
Ben Roethlisberger, Cameron Heyward and Joe Haden will be among the many Steelers‘ veterans who’s now not going to be on the sector when the Steelers face the Cowboys in Thursday’s Hall of Fame Sport. With Roethlisberger out, the Steelers will birth the sport with Mason Rudolph below middle. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin also launched on Tuesday that rookie running assist Najee Harris will now not fully play on Thursday, he’ll participate in every of the Steelers’ four preseason games.
Rudolph has reportedly been outplayed all the map in which through training camp by Dwayne Haskins, who’s in the mean time No. 3 on the depth chart. Tomlin mentioned on Tuesday that the thought is for Haskins to carry out the predominant half and Josh Dobbs will carry out Thursday evening’s sport.
After a tumultuous two years in Washington, Haskins has seemed extra esteem the participant who was selected with the 15th overall steal in the 2019 draft all the map in which through his rapid time in Pittsburgh.
“I esteem what he’s doing,” Tomlin recently mentioned of Haskins, via Rate Kaboly of The Athletic. “He takes objective correct care of the ball, but at the the same time, he’s being aggressive. He’s dialed in, even in the reps that he’s now not doing. He’s constructing a rapport with the community of guys that he’s attending to work with. That’s a factor to this that we on a typical basis create now not talk about, too. There is a accept to know when in phrases of the cohesion, in particular even as you happen to are working with multiple groups and multiple of us, and that is a man who’s getting some third-community reps, some 2nd-community reps, so he has lots of of us to accept pleased with.”
Alongside with Haskins, another highlight of Steelers training camp has been Harris, who has raised eyebrows with his broad-play capacity as well to his hasten-catching capacity. Harris recently spoke brazenly about his desire to play on Thursday evening.
“The pleasure’s there for determined,” Harris mentioned, via Jim Wexell of Steel City Insider. “Or now not it’s the difference between being angry and incandescent that it’s now not the correct thing. Or now not it’s miles a gateway to accept your ft wet and let the sport sluggish down for me. I am attempting to play as powerful as I will in that sport. I want to steal as many sport reps as likely — correct, heinous, no matter — and build no matter I will and hasten into the movie room, smash down movie, and retain working.”
Alongside with enjoying a soccer sport, the Steelers will head to Canton, Ohio, to celebrate the induction of 5 historic individuals of the group: coach Invoice Cowher, scout Invoice Nunn, safeties Donnie Shell and Troy Polamalu, and offensive lineman Alan Faneca. When asked about Cowher’s fresh check to call one blitz all the map in which through Thursday’s sport, Tomlin mentioned he would be bigger than pleased to oblige.
“Invoice can don’t trust any matter he wants,” Tomlin mentioned with a smile. “He can call a half of performs if he needs to.”