2026 Senior Bowl Practice Notes: Day 1

Senior BowlMOBILE, Alabama — The 2026 Senior Bowl is underway, and things are a bit different this year. For one, Mike Tomlin isn’t a prominent fixture of the event as he normally is on the practice field. In fact, there was very little visible Steelers representation compared to previous years with Omar Khan in Pittsburgh to introduce Mike McCarthy as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ next head coach.

I was nearly unable to make it down to Mobile due to a large ice storm that knocked down trees and shut down roads in Nashville, but I drove down the morning of and made it just in time for the National Team’s practice warmups. The skies were clear, but I didn’t exactly escape the cold with the final…