There are some fans—and to be fair, probably some coaches, too—who will almost always, under any circumstances, favor a player with the ethereal quality of ‘upside’ over a veteran player who is not a star, or at least a starter. So when the Pittsburgh Steelers elected to retain veteran cornerback Coty Sensabaugh over second-year Brian Allen, a number of people were not happy about it.
Setting aside the fact that Allen did safely make it onto the team’s practice squad for the time being, the reality was that he actually put together an overall worse preseason in 2018 than he did as a rookie, at least from a results standpoint.