What is in store right now for Artie Burns? There isn’t any clarity, at least I don’t think, at the moment. The only defensive snaps that the former first-round pick has played since the Pittsburgh Steelers bye week has been in mop-up action at the tail end of Thursday night’s blowout, during which time he committed the team’s only penalty of the entire game, a pass interference in the end zone that set up a touchdown.
It was a couple of games back during which Head Coach Mike Tomlin seemed to allow the inference that Coty Sensabaugh had won the starting job, yet at the same time he also complimented Burns for having good weeks in practice.