The Pittsburgh Steelers have now played every one of their eight rookie draft picks who made the team this year on their respective units—whether offense (four), defense (three), or special teams (one). The latest draft pick to make his offensive or defensive debut was fourth-round inside linebacker Buddy Johnson, who logged six snaps in the second half of Thursday’s game, and head coach Mike Tomlin earlier today suggested that isn’t necessarily the last you’ll see of him.
“You may see more of him. We just wanted to turn the stones over, as I mentioned, and that’s an example of it”, he told reporters during his pre-game press conference about the Texas A&M product logging snaps, mixing in with both Devin Bush and Joe Schobert—three snaps apiece—in their base 3-4 defense.