It’s one thing to have football in your blood. It’s another thing to have that bloodline and to have a pair of Hall of Famers, who did it at your position, in your corner. Those are the sorts of resources with which new Pittsburgh Steelers inside linebacker Devin Bush is breaking into the league.
That’s not why they traded their second-round pick and a third-round pick in 2020 in order to move up from 20th overall to 10th overall to get him—but it doesn’t hurt either. The Steelers have some good recent history in investing in players with that football background, which can help them get off to a faster start, as we saw with T.