Steelers’ Roethlisbeger goes on COVID-19 list
Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been placed on the COVID-19 list and will miss the Steelers’ game Sunday against the Detroit Lions.
The Steelers announced Saturday night that Roethlisberger was ruled out for the game. Roethlisberger is the second prominent quarterback in two weeks to miss a game because of COVID-19, following Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers last week.
Mason Rudolph will likely start for the Steelers, who have won four straight games.
The 39-year-old Roethlisberger has completed 64.5% of his passes this season with 10 touchdowns, four interceptions for a 90 passer rating.
PACKERS’ RODGERS WILL START AGAINST SEAHAWKS
>> Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been activated from the reserve/COVID-19 list, clearing the way for the reigning MVP to make his return Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks.
Rodgers tested positive for COVID-19 last week, preventing him from joining his teammates for a 13-7 loss at Kansas City that snapped the Packers’ seven-game winning streak.
The Packers activated Rodgers and cornerback Isaac Yiadom on Saturday. They also released linebacker La’Darius Hamilton.
Love, a 2020 first-round pick from Utah State, made his first career start in place of Rodgers at Kansas City. He went 19 of 34 for 190 yards with one touchdown and one interception.
Rodgers has completed 67.1% of his passes for 1,894 yards and 17 touchdowns with three interceptions this season.
The NFL fined Rodgers and Packers receiver Allen Lazard $14,650 this week for violating league and players’ union COVID-19 protocols. The Packers were fined $300,000 as a team.
RAMS LOSE WOODS FOR SEASON WITH INJURY >> Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Robert Woods sustained a torn ACL at practice on Friday and is out for the remainder of the season.
“You’re sick for Robert,” Rams head coach Sean McVay said Saturday. “Like we kind of mentioned yesterday, he’s epitomized everything that’s right about this place.”
Per ESPN, Woods was able to finish practice Friday and conduct interviews with the media before tests later revealed the severity of the injury.
That’s likely why Woods did not appear on the injury report Friday.
Woods’ injury came on the same day that the Rams signed wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
HALL OF FAME LB HUFF DIES AT87>> Sam Huff, the hardhitting Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the New York Giants reach six NFL title games from the mid1950s to the early 1960s and later became a popular player and announcer in Washington, died Saturday. He was 87.
Huff family lawyer Deborah Matthews told The Associated Press that Huff died Saturday of natural causes in Winchester, Virginia.
Huff always will be remembered as the furious middle linebacker in a 4-3 scheme developed for him by fellow Hall of Famer Tom Landry, his defensive coordinator with New York and later the architect of the Dallas Cowboys’ rise to power.
Raised in West Virginia in coal mining country, Huff became a two-time All-Pro in a career that spanned 1956-69. Huff was selected as the NFL’s top linebacker in 1959.
He went to five Pro Bowls, four with the Giants and one with Washington, playing in an era when he regularly crashed into the likes of Jim Brown, Jim Taylor and other running backs.