The National Football League represents a concentration of the best of the best football talent from across the world, sourced overwhelmingly from the many, many college football programs from around the country. Only a fraction of those players ever go on to sniff an NFL contract.
But even within the big tent, there is the best of the best of the best. The Pittsburgh Steelers have a few of those, and they haven’t been shy about unleashing them on their rookies this year. First-round OT Broderick Jones bore the brunt of DE Cameron Heyward. And third-round TE Darnell Washington got an unexpected early introduction to OLB T.