{"id":85337,"date":"2025-11-23T12:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rodgers-down-mason-rudolph-to-start-for-steelers-vs-bears-nfl\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:10:38","slug":"rodgers-down-mason-rudolph-to-start-for-steelers-vs-bears-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/rodgers-down-mason-rudolph-to-start-for-steelers-vs-bears-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodgers Down: Mason Rudolph to Start for Steelers vs Bears, NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers will not play this Sunday with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who will have Mason Rudolph as their starting quarterback against the Chicago Bears.\n\nSteelers coach Mike Tomlin confirmed in a pre-game interview that Rodgers &#8220;fought with all his might&#8221; to play against Chicago, adding that the decision to sit the veteran quarterback was &#8220;prudent&#8221;.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>He fought with all his might all week. That&#8217;s the prudent play for us as a collective. We&#8217;ll let Mason start; he&#8217;s absorbed the majority of the reps this week.<\/p><cite>Mike Tomlin, Steelers Coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nRodgers was listed as questionable due to a fracture in his left wrist. The four-time MVP partially participated in Thursday and Friday&#8217;s practices after missing Wednesday&#8217;s practice.\n\nRodgers arrived at Soldier Field just before 9 a.m. on Sunday morning and walked around the field, wearing a brace on his wrist.\n\nRudolph will be backed up by sixth-round pick Will Howard, who was activated from injured reserve a week ago.\n\nThe last time Rudolph started was for the Tennessee Titans in Week 17 of last year, where he had a 1-4 record as a starter. Rudolph also started four games for the Steelers in 2023, including three consecutive wins to close out the season and secure a playoff spot.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Rodgers will not play this Sunday with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who will have Mason Rudolph as their starting quarterback against the Chicago Bears. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin confirmed in a pre-game interview that Rodgers &#8220;fought with all his might&#8221; to play against Chicago, adding that the decision to sit the veteran quarterback was &#8220;prudent&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[58,288,10250,1070],"class_list":{"0":"post-85337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-mason-rudolph","11":"tag-steelers"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}