Troy Fautanu has possible heard the chatter for a 12 months now about how good he’s, regardless of his restricted enjoying alternatives attributable to damage. Now wholesome, he is able to show he’s nearly as good as marketed. Thus far, he can solely present it in Latrobe. However quickly, he’ll take it into the preseason, after which the common season, and so forth.
Fautanu missed virtually all of his rookie season attributable to a knee damage. After sitting him in Week 1, Mike Tomlin began his first-round rookie in Week 2 final season. On the time, he had already been recovering from a knee damage suffered within the preseason. After his NFL debut, he dislocated his kneecap and didn’t observe once more till this spring.
Per week into coaching camp, his teammates are seeing it. “Troy’s been nice. He’s attacked his rehab very nicely, and he’s on the market, and he doesn’t even seem like a rookie”, Pat Freiermuth instructed Pat Kirwan and Jim Miller on Movin’ the Chains on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “He appears like he performed all final 12 months. He’s actually tremendous sensible. It’s enjoyable to go and work with him on triples and mixture blocks with the tackles as a result of he’s at all times speaking”.
The Steelers chosen Troy Fautanu within the first spherical of the 2024 NFL Draft, an skilled starter out of Washington. Regardless of enjoying his faculty ball at left sort out, the Steelers moved him to the proper facet. Had he not been waylaid by damage, he possible would have opened the season as a starter—over Broderick Jones.
Now Jones is on the left facet and beginning reverse Fautanu, the Steelers’ two younger first-round picks lastly in place. It took them longer than they could have anticipated to achieve this level, however now they should make it price their whereas.
The irony is that the majority appear far more satisfied about Troy Fautanu than Broderick Jones, who has considerably extra NFL expertise. Fautanu has performed a complete of 55 snaps, and never fully stellar ones, both. Going again to his preseason debut, even, he had his share of rookie moments.
Let’s hope Pat Freiermuth is correct. Whereas Fautanu isn’t a rookie, the Steelers can’t afford him to seem like one, both. In any case, they’ve a 41-year-old quarterback to guard. It’s rather a lot simpler to look the half on Chuck Noll Discipline in Latrobe than it’s inside MetLife Stadium.
