The ‘rookie wall’ is a real thing, until it’s not. Or, at least, not every rookie hits it. Bud Dupree did. T.J. Watt did not. Even though he played nearly 1200 snaps last season between defense and special teams, Pittsburgh Steelers starting safety Terrell Edmunds believes that he only got stronger as the year wore on.
“Once you get more snaps under your belt, you make those mistakes in practice, you make mistakes in a game, you learn from your mistakes and you build off of that”, he told Gerry Dulac recently for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.