The Pittsburgh Steelers hope to get Troy Fautanu in the starting lineup by opening day, but they won’t push it. For the interim, the rookie is running mostly with the second-string offense, but seeing quality individual reps. Yesterday, for example, he took on none other than T.J. Watt in OL/DL drills in the Steelers’ first padded practice.
While it might be going too far to say that he won—perhaps he did. Fautanu at the very least held his own against the former NFL Defensive Player of the Year. But that shouldn’t be incredibly surprising, for multiple reasons.