Around this time last year, we were still fostering hopes—ignoring Joe Burrow—of Devin Bush making a run at being the Comeback Player of the Year for the 2021 season. Coming off of a torn ACL, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ former top-10 draft pick missed most of the previous year, but returning to the field, he hardly looked like the same player.
Since then, the team elected not to pick up his fifth-year option, under which he would have been scheduled to play in 2023, meaning that he is now due to become an unrestricted free agent in March.
Asked before practice yesterday if he feels this is now a make-or-break year in terms of the opportunity have a future here, he asked first, via Brooke Pryor of ESPN, “Like a Steeler?