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Lafayette’s Versatile Scheuerman Could Be UDFA Find For Steelers

As a former high school wrestling and football star, Lafayette’s Ross Scheuerman had to make a choice between the two. As a two-time county champion, he could’ve easily pursued wrestling at the next stage of his career, but he ultimately chose football, noting the ceiling on the gridiron was higher than the one on the mat.

“Ultimately decided that football was my calling at the next level,” Scheuerman said, according to P.D. Starr of Scout.com. “My junior year I started getting interest from colleges. Not any big time schools, just most of the Patriot League schools.