Signing with a talented team is always a plus if part of your drive is to be a champion. But it can also be a challenge when you’re an undrafted player to take that approach. Talented teams have deep rosters, and rarely have obvious openings.
The Pittsburgh Steelers were still somewhat in the formative phase of stocking their talent in 1974 the year safety Donnie Shell signed as a free agent, but they did have their safeties in the perpetually underrated Glen Edwards, behind whom he would wait his turn, finding scraps as a nickel defender, before finally getting a chance to start full-time in 1977.