If the Pittsburgh Steelers had a defensive training camp darling, that award would go to rookie LB Mark Robinson in a landslide. The seventh-round pick out of Ole Miss was considered a likely long shot to make the team coming into training camp as primarily a downhill thumper in the run game with flaws in coverage as only a one-year player at the position, having previously played running back a Presbyterian before transferring to Oxford and switching to the defense side of the ball.
However, Robinson made his impact known in a hurry on the football field, sticking out early in training camp and then showed glimpses of what he could do in Pittsburgh’s first preseason game against Seattle before having his coming out party in Jacksonville.