While it isn’t rare for draft picks of the Pittsburgh Steelers to not make the team’s initial 53-man roster, it is rare for those draft picks who are waived during the final round of roster cuts to not immediately wind up being signed to the practice squad. On Sunday, however, that rarish Steelers event happened again as defensive tackle Joshua Frazier, this year’s seventh-round selection out of Alabama, wasn’t signed to the team’s practice squad following him being waived on Saturday.
The Steelers seemingly already had a good sense as to the kind of player Frazier was well before they drafted him this year due the team’s new defensive line coach, Karl Dunbar, being the young player’s position coach his last two seasons of college.