Week 1 Highlights of Mason Rudolph’s NFL Debut with the Pittsburgh Steelers

When the first play of your Week 1 highlight package opens with an announcer questioning how you managed to complete an ill-advised pass into traffic, then you know it was mostly a mixed bag of results.

Nonetheless, Mason Rudolph survived an abridged, less controversial Deflategate in his NFL preseason debut this week and came out on the other side with a win over the reigning Super Bowl champion Eagles.

Dustin Ragusa generously graded Rudolph with a B for his showing in which he completed a respectable 7 of 12 passes for zero touchdowns, zero interceptions and took two sacks.

Oh, and he hit James Washington for a long ball and somehow garnered praise from Big Ben! All in all, it was a solid week. Check out some of the highlights from his first official preseason showing below.

The @steelers QB of the future?@Rudolph2Mason's preseason Week 1 highlights! pic.twitter.com/PEhXzEArXL

— NFL (@NFL) August 12, 2018

Rudolph, Washington and the Steelers are back in action this Thursday to take on the Green Bay Packers and OSU alums Lane Taylor and Lenzy Pipkins at Green Bay. The game is set to kick off at 7:00 p.m.