The Pittsburgh Steelers wrapped up minicamp final week, and as you may count on, everybody appears to be doing properly. It’s exhausting to not look good in shorts and working round as an athlete until you’re badly out of practice. This yr, in truth, many Steelers gamers who beforehand had points with their conditioning have labored on that significantly.
They didn’t fairly make Mark Kaboly’s casual and impromptu, abbreviated listing of standout Steelers from minicamp, although. Requested throughout a hit on 93.7 The Fan, he supplied a number of the gamers who caught out to him. They’re all names we’ve talked about to some extent, so no surprises, however right here they’re.
“[Roman Wilson], he and Calvin Austin [III] have been actually good”, he stated, highlighting the younger receivers as highlights throughout the Steelers’ minicamp. “I like Mason McCormick. I assumed he simply regarded a bit completely different, felt extra snug. Broderick [Jones], I believe he’s nonetheless getting used to it. I believe he wants extra time. However I believe he’s extra snug. No less than it appears like, it appears like he’s extra snug”.
Throughout one other spot, although, he did supply another names from Steelers minicamp that stood out. He talked about, for instance, DL Logan Lee and RB Evan Hull, referencing S Juan Thornhill but once more. Max Hurleman, who Kaboly famous was working with large receivers, additionally stood out.
One title Kaboly didn’t occur to say in these specific segments is Darnell Washington, although he has not too long ago. Throughout OTAs, for instance, he stated Washington regarded “excellent”. I’m certain he may have simply put him on his Steelers winners listing for minicamp in a extra formal setting. Whenever you’re talking stay on air and off the cuff, it’s simpler to miss issues.
After all, with OTAs and minicamp over, it doesn’t actually matter which Steelers stood out. What issues is what these guys do in coaching camp and the preseason, after which within the video games that really matter. Certain, it’s thrilling in Could to speak a few slimmed-down, faster Darnell Washington. That Broderick Jones is in the perfect form of his profession is good, and listening to Calvin Austin III performing like a No 2, additionally pretty.
However till they do issues and present these traits in-game, it’s all simply speak. It’s not unreasonable to count on enchancment primarily based on what now we have heard out of Steelers OTAs, however will it translate? That’s a giant query, and one we gained’t have a solution to for some time. What we do know is the Steelers want any individual to play just like the No. 2 WR. They want a franchise left deal with, and one other weapon within the passing sport, too. However it’s by no means the case that all the June hype lives as much as the speak come September.
