DeShon Elliott found a new home with the Pittsburgh Steelers—and a new defensive backs coach to raise his game. With Gerald Alexander returning to take over for Grady Brown, his charges new and old are taking to him well. That includes Elliott, who shouted him out last week, crediting him for helping him make a play that wasn’t necessarily in his wheelhouse once upon a time.
Although Joey Porter Jr. and Cory Trice Jr. remain from Alexander’s last stint with the Steelers, Elliott is comparatively new. Signed last year while Alexander spent one season elsewhere, he is impressed with his new coach.