During the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first preseason game, the coaching staff evidently wanted to give third-year nose tackle Daniel McCullers a very long spell. If I recall, he played around 40 snaps in the game, and his level of effort and execution, as you might expect, wavered quite a bit in that span of time.
It was certainly a lukewarm performance at best, and not one to embolden thoughts and visions of McCullers suddenly becoming a Pro Bowl player. But I found that his appearance in the second preseason game against the Eagles, during which he found much briefer encounters, much more to my liking, and perhaps more representative of what is to come in terms of usage rate.