They all suck. Minshew, Hurts, and Rudolph. All 3 are bad. Maybe Hurts or Minshew leads the Steelers to 1 more win next year, but none of them is a good QB. 9-10, 5-4-1, 8-14 are their win/loss records, their seasons with their most starts their QBRs were 36, 44, and 48. Minshew threw less INTs than the other two, but their TD percentages were roughly the same.
My point is that if all 3 are bad QBs, don't waste more picks or money on acquiring a different one. That's just throwing money or picks out the window that could be better spent elsewhere. Even if Minshew is 8 QBs higher than Mason on the NFL QB ranking, he's still in the bottom third. We should be trying to find our next QB that's in the top 10, probably through the draft. We don't have a Rex Grossman Bears situation here where our defense is good enough to get us to the Super Bowl.
Did you watch the Eagles playoff game? If so, you'll see the exact traits that Hurts lacks to be an actual decent NFL starter. He might be good in fantasy due to his rushing, but as a passer he is woefully inadequate. It's possible that he could improve, many young QBs aren't afforded the time. He does not currently show the ability to anticipate where to throw the ball, WRs have to be completely open before he'll let it go, and then by the time the ball arrives the defender has often had enough time to recover and make a play at it. Devonta Smith is immensely talented, and with a better QB he probably would have competed with Chase for best rookie WR. He comes out of breaks, and a better QB would have already let the ball go, but Hurts just stares him down until he's free and then throws it, leading to contested catches and pass breakups. Goedert had to spend all season making acrobatic catches while fighting off defenders.
The idea that Hurts or Minshew would lead the Steelers to a successful season is wild. Rudolph won't either, I'm not arguing that he will, just arguing that we shouldn't waste trading for Minshew while we've already got a bad QB. Minshew still has a year on his contract so it's not like he'd be a FA, and we'd have to extend him if we wanted to keep him which would probably cost more than Mason's $4 million. We have so many team needs that we can't afford to waste cap money on another QB that won't help us be contenders.