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Ahkello Witherspoon Brings Confidence With Him To New Secondary

We don’t yet know what his role is going to be, and quite likely it will evolve over the course of the season, but new Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon is known to possess at least one quality that is essential to his position: confidence.

A 2017 third-round draft pick of the San Francisco 49ers, the Colorado product spent his first four seasons there before signing with the Seattle Seahawks this offseason on a one-year, $4 million deal (of which $2.5 million was a signing bonus, meaning the Seahawks remain on the hook for that, so they essentially spent $2.