Pittsburgh Steelers rookie WR Calvin Austin III suffered a foot injury last Friday prior to the team’s first preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks, forcing him to miss the team’s first exhibition game of the summer. Mike Tomlin mentioned after the game that he would hope to get Austin back “sooner rather than later”, yet the fourth-round rookie out of Memphis failed to suit up at all this week while being hampered by the ailment.
On Thursday afternoon, Austin’s prospects of seeing his first preseason action Saturday got pulled on hold for yet another week.
Speaking to the media in a press conference prior to practice Thursday, Mike Tomlin said that Austin would not play Saturday against the Jacksonville Jaguars due to the foot injury suffered last Friday according to Steelers sideline reporter Missi Matthews.