As the Steelers’ rookie minicamp winds down today, it’s worth getting to know the only player present there at the game’s most important position: Quarterback Roland Rivers, a name already known to fans of western Pennsylvania football.
Rivers is a success story for those growing up on the western half of the state. The minicamp QB played the latter half of his college football at Division II Slippery Rock University in Northwest PA, spending the 2018 and 2019 seasons with The Rock. Slippery Rock is located just 51 miles north of Heinz Field, and during Rivers’ time there, he built them into a recent Division II power.