Through two weeks of practice, Beanie Bishop Jr. has been running with the Steelers’ first-team defense, as he did at the start of his rookie season. But he finished the year practically on the bench, and he doesn’t want to go through that again. How everything plays out remains to be seen, but he currently appears to be in a good position.
“It looks like, at this point right now, that Beanie Bishop is your nickel”, Mark Kaboly said on the Kaboly + Mack podcast. “Now, it’s really early. I don’t know if they’re just giving him that first chance, maybe throwing [Brandin] Echols back in”.