Dan Moore Jr. was not drafted in 2021 with the intention of being the Pittsburgh Steelers’ future franchise left tackle. Surely the team held aspirations of hitting on a gem in the middle of the draft, but you don’t wait that long when you think you have a franchise piece.
Yet Moore has started every game of his career over the past two seasons, initially due to injury, but now he is facing stiff competition for his job after the team traded up in the first round to draft Broderick Jones 14th overall out of Georgia.
While not welcome news for Moore in terms of his job security, he’s taken the right attitude since Day One and embraced the competition—not that, as he told the team’s website recently, he feels he or anybody should need such motivation.