The 2017 season has not shaped up in any way that former Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker James Harrison had envisioned. I think that much at least goes without saying. In the middle of the previous season, he was still pretty resolved to call it a career afterward. But as the season progressed and he felt good and was having success, he ended up signing a two-year deal with Pittsburgh in the offseason.
By that point, Harrison had not only passed Jarvis Jones on the depth chart, but became a full-time starter, something that the Steelers simply had not had over the course of the past couple of years, preferring to use a rotation due to a lack of confidence in any one player to hold the position down.