The Pittsburgh Steelers asked a lot of their rookie draft class in 2021. Of the eight (out of nine) draft picks who made the 53-man roster, seven of them played significant snaps over the course of the year, with five of them (including punter Pressley Harvin III) being starters.
A slight, slight surprise was second-round tight end Pat Freiermuth being named co-starter from the outside alongside Eric Ebron, but it didn’t take too long for him to demonstrate why the coaching staff put their trust in him. Outside of a couple of high-profile blemishes (both of which he still seems haunted by the memory of), he was quite reliable.