Several members of the Pittsburgh Steelers organization visited injured linebacker Ryan Shazier in the hospital prior to returning from Cincinnati after the team’s Monday night game and head coach Mike Tomlin was one of them. On Tuesday. Tomlin described his post game hospital visit with Shazier as “strangely normal.”
“Ryan is a legitimate leader,” Tomlin said. “He’s asking about the guys, Vince [Williams], particularly. I told him about the guys. We talked about how the game unfolded and some of those things. Normal conversations and not only is he a mentally tough guy, but he’s a guy that spiritually in a great place and I know that that’s an asset to he and his family.