Pittsburgh Steelers OL Nate Herbig looks to have the inside track on the backup center job, but he’ll miss his second straight preseason game with an injury. Joe Rutter of Trib Live reported pregame that Herbig wasn’t working with the center’s pregame and it “looks like he won’t go in the finale.”
Herbig doesn’t have a lot of center experience, so not getting snaps in during live game settings is going to hurt his chances of holding the backup job. He played nine snaps at center in the team’s preseason opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but suffered an injury in practice and has missed the last two games.