The Pittsburgh Steelers, you might have noticed, have already concluded yet another training camp installment, though for the first time since 2019, they actually had the opportunity to sneak away to Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, where, for every year outside of the past two dating back to the 60s, they have forged the building blocks of their roster.
Over the past decade, that forging has taken place more violently for the Steelers than most teams. Head coach Mike Tomlin installed live tackling drills in training camp that year, which by that time had already become virtually unheard of, and hadn’t been done in Pittsburgh for a number of years—years before Tomlin took the job in 2007.