When it comes to most teams, a guy that you draft in the second round, especially earlier than toward the end of the round, you expect him to play, pretty early. The Pittsburgh Steelers are not a team that likes to rely upon their rookies contributing early if they can avoid it, in spite of the fact that they are one of the principle organizations that lean primarily on the draft to build their roster.
In this particular instance, they have JuJu Smith-Schuster, James Washington, and Diontae Johnson sitting in front of rookie 49th-overall pick Chase Claypool.