Steelers Read & React: Reasons for optimism, pessimism after first week of training camp

There’s finally some actual football news to talk about with the arrival of Steelers training camp, and we can’t wait to dive right in for this week’s Read & React:

The Steelers are around a week into training camp. Give one reason for optimism and one reason for pessimism following the team’s first few practices.

RP: I’m a “give me the bad news first” type of person, so let’s begin with the reason for pessimism.