Similar to last season, the Pittsburgh Steelers have a couple of starting jobs up for grabs. Dissimilar is how those competitions feel. Entering training camp, I don’t think many people, for example, feel particularly worried about who is going to start at right tackle or mack inside linebacker, because the team was able to acquire a respectable amount of talent to make that a legitimate competition.
And in the case of the right tackle spot, that’s a competition that they thrust upon themselves when they elected to trade Marcus Gilbert (thereby getting rid of his salary cap his of several million), doing so only because they already knew they had some viable options in-house to replace him.