Payton Wilson’s college seasons essentially went one of two ways. Either he stayed healthy the entire year and was one of the game’s most productive college players. Or he spent the season rehabbing and watching his teammates practice. Wilson’s checkered medical history is seemingly the reason why he fell to the end of the third round when he was viewed as a Top-50 talent, the 41st-ranked player on NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah’s Big Board.
But that didn’t stop the Steelers from taking him. And even though teams and doctors are concerned about his longevity, Wilson isn’t going to spend time dwelling on those fears.