Contract signed, Payton Wilson can officially call himself a professional football player. He’s the elite of the elite, one of the rare few who make it to the NFL with talent far above his third-round draft selection. But the hype isn’t going to his head. Grounded even after being drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, Wilson outlined his core values that keep him humble.
“I’m a pretty simple guy. Faith, family, football is everything to me,” he said in a recent interview with Steelers.com’s Missi Matthews via the team’s YouTube channel. “You’re going to get everything that I can possibly give for as long as I’m here and for as long as I play the game.