Going from the end of your collegiate season to training for the NFL Combine and the NFL Draft, and then jumping right into a new team and a new situation following the draft can be a whirlwind for many players.
There is no real offseason for those rookies. It’s just go, go, go, with a lot of information thrown at them in their new NFL homes.
Some sink, some swim, most just tread water. It’s that Year 2 in the NFL that can truly lead to the breakout.
For Pittsburgh Steelers’ second-year defensive lineman Keeanu Benton, that appears to be the case.