When the Pittsburgh Steelers set their board in the 2023 NFL Draft, Nick Herbig was one of Mike Tomlin’s two favorite EDGE prospects in the class. He has proven Tomlin right almost every time he’s seen the field since then, but he’s still a relatively unknown player on the national scene, stuck behind T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith. That won’t change in 2025, but J.J. Watt gave a ringing endorsement of the third-year player during today’s episode of The Pat McAfee Show.
“Herbig is great. Underrated,” Watt said. “Very Underrated.”
T.J. Watt, who just agreed to a record-breaking contract extension with the Steelers last week, recently posted a photo of himself and Herbig at a training facility in Wisconsin.