There is nothing that pains Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin more than being put in a position in which he is asked to pay a compliment to a rookie, particularly a rookie draft pick. So far through the first three days of training camp, he has used some variety of the phrase “he did not stand out negatively” to describe the majority of the team’s early draft picks when asked about them.
That includes fourth-round running back Benny Snell, Jr., who by most other accounts acquitted himself well during the backs-on-backers drill that helped introduce padded practice back to Latrobe for the 2019 edition of training camp.