Though he still has to win the starting left tackle job in a hotly contested positional battle coming up in training camp, Pittsburgh Steelers rookie offensive tackle Broderick Jones has quite a bit of hype and expectations surrounding him entering his first NFL season.
NFL.com draft analyst Chad Reuter projected Jones to be one of two offensive tackles on the NFL’s Offensive All-Rookie Team Monday morning, joining fellow first-round offensive tackle Darnell Wright of the Chicago Bears.
Jones was the fourth offensive tackle taken in the draft behind Arizona’s Paris Johnson Jr., Tennessee’s Peter Skoronski, and Wright, yet beats out two of the three ahead of him to land on Reuter’s projected All-Rookie team.