Nearly a year ago, the Buffalo Bills dumped Ross Cockrell on the cutdown to 75 man rosters. Now, Cockrell is poised to be an opening day starter for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
But as Mike Tomlin repeated throughout this morning’s interview, past resume is irrelevant. And Cockrell is proof of that.
“I don’t care about what means you got here,” he told reporters today. “We liked him when he came out of Duke. He was a guy we thought had the potential to be a good football player. He was available.