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Mike Tomlin ‘Impressed And Marked By’ Bill Nunn As Talent Evaluator

There are few over time who have meant more to the Pittsburgh Steelers organization both professionally and personally than Bill Nunn, who served in both a formal and informal capacity within the organization for several decades.

Not only was his scouting work integral to the Steelers stockpiling the sort of talent that allowed them to become the team of the 1970s, helping to add Hall of Famers like John Stallworth, Mel Blount, and Donnie Shell through his familiarity with historically black colleges and universities.

And he had sense about him, as well. As the story goes, for example, he got Chuck Noll so high on Stallworth that they wanted to draft him in the first round in 1974.