It was just recently that I wrote about fourth-year tackle Jerald Hawkins and the fact that he has not had a good start to training camp. The Pittsburgh Steelers initially paid lip service to the notion that he would be in the running to compete for the vacant starting right tackle job, but his performance suggested otherwise.
His struggles were so notable that Craig Wolfley pointed it out a few days ago during a Steelers Live segment, which I mentioned when I previously discussed this topic. However, the veteran lineman offered a mea culpa yesterday during another segment after seeing the improvement, and even got a chance to talk to him about why the ‘switch’ had been ‘flipped’ for him.