When Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was asked about the future of former fourth-round cornerback Cortez Allen after the team’s season had concluded, and whether or not he was confident that he would be able to return in 2016 as a contributor, he responded rather simply with, “I’m not. We’ll see”.
Asked to elaborate on his position, Tomlin didn’t offer much in the way of clarity, deflecting such concerns for ones more pragmatically addressed later in the offseason, as the Steelers had just finished playing football. He likely hadn’t spent much time thinking about Allen since he was placed on injured reserve almost three months prior to those comments.