PITTSBURGH -- The legend of Devlin Hodges doesn't start on a football field.
Instead, the story of the Pittsburgh Steelers' newest QB1 begins in a hockey rink in Birmingham, Alabama.
Hodges was 2 years old the first time he was strapped into a pair of ice skates.
A year later, he was playing on a team with 4- and 5-year-olds coached by his dad. A toddler on a hockey team in the heart of the deep south.
"We put him on the skates," said his mom, Amy. "And I mean literally he took off.