Perhaps it’s somewhat unfair to Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Omar Khan that so much time has been spent discussing his assistant, Andy Weidl. But the reality is that Weidl is the new guy. Khan has spent decades in the organization already, so we know a lot more about him. As humans, we want to know about what we don’t know.
Whether valid or not, many have the impression that Weidl being hired as assistant general manager has a greater potential to alter the Steelers’ traditional patterns than does Khan succeeding Kevin Colbert as general manager, with whom he worked for over two decades.