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Okorafor In More Comfortable Lead-By-Example Role With Vet Additions: ‘I Just Try To Be More Myself’

Chukwuma Okorafor is the only offensive lineman on the Pittsburgh Steelers who has been with the team for more than two seasons, if you go by accrued seasons. J.C. Hassenauer was first signed in 2019, but did not make the team until the following year.

A third-round draft pick in 2018, Okorafor is now going into his fifth season, and his second as a projected full-time starter. The Pittsburgh Steelers re-signed him on a three-year contract worth just short of $30 million. And with that comes greater responsibility in the offensive line room.

It will be different not having Ben [Roethlisberger] around, but it’s also a change that was eventually going to happen.