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Conner climbs the next plateau: The Black and Gold.

A busy day it is for a certain Steelers’ third-round draft pick, what with the scheduled erection of a series of small but enduring monuments to a universally compelling personal history.

Right, that’s all.

Pulling on the gameday black and gold for the first time, fleeing the Heinz Field tunnel toward his inaugural appearance on a professional stage, assuming a stance in his first offensive formation, and perhaps — who would doubt it — scoring a touchdown.

It will be in this process, give or take a detail, that James Earl Conner will become the most celebrated Pitt man to play for the Steelers in more than 50 years, and probably ever.