Through the NFLPA, members of the Pittsburgh Steelers roster issued a statement last month that read, in part, “the players of the Pittsburgh Steelers have decided to exercise our right to not participate in voluntary in-person activities”.
While the statement itself leaves open some room for vagary as to just how many of the players would be exercising the aforementioned right, the original intent probably represented a percentage larger than the approximately 25 that reportedly was not in attendance at today’s first OTA session, as Brooke Pryor of ESPN estimates that the Steelers have roughly 75 percent attendance.