A lot of focus is being placed on rookie third-round tackle Chukwuma Okorafor this offseason and for good reason: he’s going to play this year for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Or at least that is the direction that we appear to be heading.
And that will happen whether there are injuries are not (and there are always injuries; I invite you to find the last season in which a backup tackle did not start at least a game). The Steelers like to use the tackle-eligible, and to use young players they want to break in for that role, and that is what Okorafor will be doing this year.