PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin finally made official Tuesday what has been expected for weeks, if not months: Mitch Trubisky will open the season in Cincinnati as the Steelers’ starting quarterback, replacing Ben Roethlisberger.
The announcement, which came at Tomlin’s weekly press conference, is hardly a surprise. Trubisky has taken nearly every snap with the first-team offense since the first day of spring practice and started all three preseason games.
Tomlin, though, had refused to publicly anoint Trubisky as the starter, despite all the obvious evidence, until now.
