Pittsburgh Steelers’ Linebacker Ryan Shazier had not spoken to the media since that December game in Cincinnati when he left the game on a stretcher and much has certainly changed in those six plus months. Today he spoke to a gathering of reporters and if you thought he was planning to announce his retirement then you had another thing coming.
Shazier spoke with the confidence you’d expect from your defensive leader, not from a guy who has battled to regain his strength and ability to stand and walk on his own. “I’ve been working my tail off every single and I have that in the back of my mind every time I go to rehab,” he said.