An ideal football world for the Pittsburgh Steelers involves their drafting the eventual successors for key starters while those starters still remain and are effective and can show the rookie the ropes. Rarely has that worked out as well as when they drafted Cameron Heyward in the first round in 2011.
On pace to surpass the franchise record for sacks (unless T.J. Watt gets there first), Heyward has had a stellar career, even if it involved him spending a lot of time on the bench early on. That was thanks in part to the play of Brett Keisel, who like Heyward now, proved to be effective even into his early-mid-30s.