Pittsburgh Steelers rookie college free agent Beanie Bishop Jr. managed to capture the imagination of the fan base. He filled their heads with visions of nickelbacks picking off passes and landing big hits. But at least as I write this, I don’t think we can even definitively say that he will secure a spot on the Steelers’ 53-man roster.
That might sound like an outlandish thing to write given the general trajectory of Bishop’s offseason. But we can’t ignore where things end, and Bishop ended up playing the second half of the final preseason game. Not a lot of players who only take the field in the second half of the final preseason game end up on 53-man rosters.