The Pittsburgh Steelers’ starting punter job came down to the wire. Corliss Waitman beat out Cameron Johnston by just an inch. Or rather, a foot. Shedding more light on why Waitman won the job over Johnston, Mike Tomlin said their footedness played a factor.
“A side note, in my opinion, is the fact that he’s left-footed,” Tomlin told Bob Pompeani during this week’s Mike Tomlin Show via the team’s YouTube channel. “And when you’re left-footed, that creates some issues in the return game. If you remember the last year, there were four or five punts on the ground last year.