For rookie quarterbacks in the preseason, the most important goal is to look the part.<\/p>\n
Steelers rookie quarterback Drew Allar looked the part on Thursday night against the Packers.<\/p>\n
In three second-half drives, Allar engineered three touchdowns. The first covered 80 yards in five plays, culminating in a three-yard touchdown run by the third-round quarterback. The second went 89 yards in 10 plays, with a five-yard touchdown pass to cap it. The third racked up 60 yards in 10 plays, ending with a four-yard touchdown pass.<\/p>\n
For the night, Allar completed 10 of 13 passes for 153 yards, two touchdowns, and no interceptions. His passer rating was a near-perfect 154.8.<\/p>\n
The other quarterback who was making his NFL preseason debut, 2025 sixth-rounder Will Howard, completed 10 of 11 passes for 93 yards, no touchdowns, and no interceptions.<\/p>\n
Unless the Steelers will keep four quarterbacks on the 53-man roster, they\u2019ll have to decide on a quarterback to cut. The better Allar and Howard play, the more likely the odd man out will be veteran Mason Rudolph.<\/p>\n
Of course, one of them could be traded. They each finished with passer ratings in excess of 100 in the 2026 preseason debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For rookie quarterbacks in the preseason, the most important goal is to look the part. Steelers rookie quarterback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-813159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}