Cameron Heyward is absent from OTAs, but he isn’t the only veteran missing some of the voluntary sessions. T.J. Watt is vacationing in Austria, which has left some extra opportunities for second-year OLB Nick Herbig in practice.
“I look at this like a chance to get better and be able to go against a guy like Broderick [Jones],” Herbig told Mark Kaboly via an article posted on The Athletic. “You have to take full advantage of opportunities like these.”
Herbig didn’t get a ton of playing time in 2023 as a rookie. He was the fourth OLB in the rotation with Markus Golden on the roster, but he did some great things with what little playing time he had.