Football is a game of inches and split-second decisions with a very fine line between a successful play and a disaster. Juan Thornhill was incredibly close to an interception Sunday against the New York Jets, so close that he can almost still feel the ball grazing his fingertips. It still bothers him the next day.
“Don’t bring that up, man. That’s one play that really, it bothers me. That’s the play that stick with me,” Thornhill said with a smile via Steelers Live on X. “I saw the ball coming but I didn’t want to get a PI [pass interference].