We have all known for years, surely, that the end of an era would come. We could see it on the horizon: Heath Miller would retire, and the Pittsburgh Steelers would move on without him, more likely for worse than for better. Of course, now that era is upon us, sooner than many of us expected.
But there is, at least, a bridge to help cross the gap from one era to the next—not from Heath Miller to Heath Miller’s successor, but simply from Heath Miller to not Heath Miller. And I have no doubt that the front office had that in mind with their scouring of the tight end position over the past couple of years.