Chukwuma Okorafor has had a rocky start to his NFL career. A third-round pick in 2018, he spent most of 2019 as a gamely inactive. An audition to start at right tackle in 2020 had him among the worst in the league at the position.
He showed enough to build off of, though, that the Pittsburgh Steelers are entrusting him to left tackle — the most critical position on the line, and the one protecting Ben Roethlisberger’s blind side in the quarterback’s potential final season. The move across the line brings Okorafor back to where he played in college at Western Michigan.