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One great thing about the Steelers 2021 campaign is it’s solidified Cam Heyward’s legacy

How many Steelers defenders have either been hurt or traded for lack of playing time so far in 2021?

If you answered, “All of them except Cam Heyward,” you would be correct.

That’s right, just five years after Heyward, the Steelers’ star defensive lineman and 2011 first-round pick out of The Ohio State, missed the back half of the 2016 regular season and postseason with a torn pectoral muscle, he seems hellbent on paying his defensive brethren back after they had his back.

In case you forgot, the Steelers defense seemed to collectively up its game after the injury to Heyward on November 13, 2016, in a last-second loss to the Cowboys at Heinz Field.