Nobody thought in July that wide receiver Ray-Ray McCloud was going to even be in contention for a spot on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 53-man roster. This is far from shocking, of course. He was still signed with the Buffalo Bills at that point, who let him go when the rosters started trimming to 80 as training camps opened.
The Steelers would only pick him up in the middle of August, the sort of signing that usually ends up just being a footnote. Given the fact that training camp was closed to the public this year and that there was no preseason, those on the outside couldn’t get any glimpse of McCloud in a Steelers uniform, outside of some media notes from the practice sessions, so it was certainly a surprise when his name was not included in the cutdown list, especially considering that they only kept five wide receivers.