One day soon, Steelers Nation won’t have Mason Rudolph to kick around anymore. Will they regret it? Perhaps. The Steelers’ long history mistreating Mason has turned the hard-battling quarterback into a sympathetic figure.

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Pittsburgh hasn’t been this excited for a Steelers’ preseason game since I don’t know when. These typical ho-hum affairs are usually greeted with apathy. But this season, the first without established starter Ben Roethlisberger, there’s so much change going on, and Steelers fans are dying to see what they have.

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It’s been a rapturous return for the Steelers to their traditional training camp home at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa. The wait after two COVID-cancelled years has been well worth it. 

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There’s no escaping the incredible pressure that comes with being a first-round quarterback pick in Pittsburgh. Kenny Pickett, the hometown favorite out of Pitt, is about to face all the hype and hopes that Steelers Nation can muster. And they can muster a lot. But Pickett will do it at big disadvantage as training camp practices get underway at St. Vincent College in Latrobe. 

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The Steelers are heading back to old Latrobe, where championship Pittsburgh teams have been forged under hot summer sun since 1966. But could this be a historically bad team we are about to see in 2022? The national NFL media and the Vegas odds makers say it is. 

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It was never going to be easy to replace Ben Roethlisberger as the Steelers franchise quarterback after 18 seasons. So the team wisely decided to purchase two lottery tickets, not one.

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In the lull between minicamp and training camp, talk often replaces on-field achievement. And boy, has there been a lot of talk surrounding your Steelers. In wake of safety Minkah Fitzpatrick’s blockbuster Steelers contract, plenty in Pittsburgh are saying receiver Dionate Johnson will be the next to cash in. 

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Nobody puts Kenny Pickett third on the QB depth chart.

Yet, that’s precisely where Pickett has been pegged by Mike Tomlin & Company coming off minicamp practices. So where does the team’s first quarterback battle in nearly 20 years stand heading into training camp at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe?

First off, this is still a three-way battle to be the Steelers’ starter when the team travels to Cincinnati to face the AFC Champion Bengals to open the season. Believe it or not, supposedly mediocre Mason Rudolph is not out of it, despite what a large portion of Steelers Nation might think. But it’s Mitch Trubisky, the free-agent signing making backup quarterback bread, who’s currently the clear frontrunner. 

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Two Steelers milestones occurred this week, and they’re very much interlinked. First, it was rookie quarterback Kenny Pickett celebrating his 24th birthday. The second is the start of mandatory minicamp, with full-blown Steelers’ training camp looming on the horizon. These events are bound together because 24 is “old” for a first-round rookie QB. But Kenny Pickett was drafted by the Steelers precisely because he was the most experienced, pro-ready quarterback available. Pickett comes with five years and 49 starts under his belt at Pitt. The Steelers, which share a building with the hometown college football team, watched Pickett’s progress every single year. This brings us to mandatory minicamp, where things start getting real. 

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It’s been a season of change for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Changes at the top have a new general management structure in place, with a mix of new and old blood to structure future Steelers rosters. Meanwhile, your 2022 roster has taken shape via aggressive moves by the outgoing GM in both free agency and the draft -- moves that should totally transform the team’s quarterback room.

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