Count me among the many who were thrilled when the Steelers traded up in the first round of April’s NFL draft to select Michigan’s uber-talented Devin Bush. The need to draft a do-it-all linebacker has been glaring since the awful injury to Ryan Shazier in December 2017. Twenty-some games of scuffling to replace Shazier’s production created a fair amount of anxiety among the fan base. Although it’s too early to know for sure, the initial reports from training camp suggest Bush could be a collective dose of Prozac for the black-and-gold faithful.
If Bush can be a reasonable facsimile of Shazier this season, a prominent weakness will have been fortified.