Back to the Pittsburgh Steelers Newsfeed

The battle for the Steelers right tackle spot is not a popularity contest

The Twitter account Blitzburgh recently conducted a poll asking fans who they thought would win the competition for the Steelers starting right tackle spot between Chukwuma Okorafor and Zach Banner, a position battle that was created when head coach Mike Tomlin announced last week that incumbent starter Matt Feiler would begin training camp at left guard.

The results—67.6 percent to 32.4—were overwhelmingly in Banner’s favor. That just didn’t make sense. If this was a poll asking fans who they thought should be the Steelers offensive coordinator—Randy Fichtner or a bar of Dove soap—yeah, sure, I could see those numbers.