The Pittsburgh Steelers knew Cam Heyward wouldn’t be an instant-impact player. With Aaron Smith and Brett Keisel starting, drafting Heyward was a look toward the future, not the present. But in hindsight, it was the best decision the Steelers could’ve made, finding their anchor of the d-line when Smith and Keisel had hung up their cleats. Appearing on Heyward’s Not Just Football podcast recently, former GM Kevin Colbert, the man who drafted him in 2011, explained why he became the team’s pick.
“He had an interesting senior year,” Colbert said in the episode that took place during Saturday’s draft.