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Spillane honors late grandfather with No. 41

"So what's this for, like a podcast or something?"

Robert Spillane doesn't do much media. Camera crews don't envelop his personal space they way they will with Mason Rudolph, James Conner, Cam Heyward or JuJu Smith-Schuster. Instead, Spillane's usually tucked away in his far, back-left corner of the Steelers locker room at the Rooney Complex, invisible to the camera-strapped hummingbirds flittering about in search of that day's nectar.

But one day before our chat on this day in the South Side, the 23-year-old Spillane was tough to miss.