When the Steelers gave up first- and second-round picks in the 2019 NFL Draft and a third-rounder in 2020, to move up to the 10th spot in 2019 select linebacker Devin Bush, it was with the idea he would be a guy who would never need to leave the field.
After losing Ryan Shazier to a career-ending injury late in the 2017, they had tried some different things to replicate him the following season, signing safety Morgan Burnett and Jon Bostic in free agency that year in a failed effort to solve the issue.