The Pittsburgh Steelers coveted CB Donte Jackson enough to trade away a starting wide receiver to get him. It’s a premise that many fans struggle to accept—unless they deny the value of Johnson as a commodity. But for the Steelers, Jackson is a player they seem to believe in. And he is a player excited to play for them.
“I almost feel, like, giddy”, Jackson told Chris Adamski last week for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “I feel giddy like how I was going into LSU, just knowing the standard was already set, you know what you had to come in there to do, it’s been like this for years.