PITTSBURGH -- Sitting beside a larger-than-life chocolate-brown teddy bear, quarterback Dwayne Haskins held a microphone in one hand and balanced a children’s book in the other.
He was surrounded by students at Fulton Elementary, a public school 5 miles from the Pittsburgh Steelers’ practice facility, for Read Across America Day in early March. The students stared, rapt as the quarterback read aloud and paused to show the auditorium the illustrations before he turned the page.
When he finished, the kids eagerly raised their hands, jumping at the opportunity to ask a real life Steeler a question.