Hours after his release, we have a little more clarity as to what led to David DeCastro’s departure from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Kudos to the PPG’s Joe Starkey, who spoke with DeCastro to get the story. According to Starkey’s article, DeCastro says he needs ankle surgery, his third, to repair a nagging bone spur problem.
From the PPG article.
“I have to get surgery on my ankle a third time,” DeCastro said in a text Thursday. “I tried to fix it last year but the bone spurs kept coming back. It nagged me pretty bad all last year.