One Pittsburgh Steelers player finished with a top 10 rookie Pro Football Focus grade in Week 1 of the preseason. It wasn’t first-round offensive tackle Troy Fautanu, second-round center Zach Frazier, or even the electric third-round outside linebacker Payton Wilson. It was an undrafted free agent signee, Jacoby Windmon, a linebacker from Michigan State.
Windmon played just 18 snaps in the Steelers’ preseason opener against the Houston Texans last Friday. Yet in that brief window, Windmon recorded three tackles and one pass breakup, finishing with a 90.0 PFF grade. That was higher than any other Steelers defender, and good for the seventh-best grade among all rookies in Week 1 of the preseason.