Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin gleefully presided over backs on ‘backers yesterday, a highlight of every training camp. And as you might expect, he got his fair share of comments in along the way, as is his right. My favorite that I saw was a shot at outside linebackers coach Denzel Martin, a classic Tomlin reaction. Chris Adamski of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review wrote about it yesterday.
Anecdotally, the winner of Tuesday’s “Backs on backers” was Darnell Washington. The massive tight end was like an impenetrable wall to first-year outside linebacker David Perales during a rep early in the drill.