PITTSBURGH -- A day before the Pittsburgh Steelers hosted the Tennessee Titans on Dec. 19, rookie punter Pressley Harvin III gathered with his entire family under one roof.
The following day, his family watched him warm up from the sideline at Heinz Field, his dad and grandmother bundled and sitting in wheelchairs.
It was the last time all of them were together.
Six days later on Christmas morning, Harvin learned his dad died after a long battle with a terminal illness. Two weeks after that, his grandmother died.
“I’ve never had that much adversity put on me at once,” Harvin said Thursday.