Rarely do the Pittsburgh Steelers sign a player as an unrestricted free agent without proceeding to go on about how much they liked him coming out of college. That evidently wasn’t the case for their new top inside linebacker, Cole Holcomb, signed in March to a three-year, $18 million deal.
Head coach Mike Tomlin admitted to reporters last month that the team was “less familiar with him coming out” and that they “gained perspective on him through his playing career” after he came into the league in 2019, according to Mark Kaboly of The Athletic.
Not that that’s a bad thing.