Devin Bush Learning ‘How I Could Cheat My Way Into Making Plays’

The Pittsburgh Steelers are in a hurry to get Devin Bush on the field as soon as possible. I don’t care what they said before the draft about wanting to take rookies along more slowly. That was before they knew they would be able to get Bush.

The 10th-overall pick has been rotating in with the first-team defense since his first practice, and has seemingly been taking an increasingly predominant share of the snaps lately. That includes opportunities when Mark Barron is getting rest.

One of the reasons that they are able to do this—and one of the reasons that they coveted him so much—is because he has given every indication that he is a fast learner. That was true both in the pre-draft scouting…