After missing the beginning of training camp with an ankle injury, Kevin Dotson has been working to get back onto the field and apparently out of HC Mike Tomlin’s doghouse. Tomlin has been pretty blunt in his comments about Dotson over the past couple of weeks, stating “He hasn’t done nothing to earn first-team reps. What are we talking about? He’s a second-year guy that hadn’t worked.”
Granted, this comment was likely blown out of proportion as Dotson hadn’t practiced at all up until that point, and when asked about why Dotson was working with the second-string OL rather than jumping right back in with the first-team unit, Tomlin wanted to acknowledge that Dotson has some ground to make up.