If Steelers rookie FB DJ Thomas-Jones doesn’t make the 53-man roster, he won’t be going down without a fight. A college free agent, he knows he has his work cut out for him, but he has the want-to to carve out a role for himself. Or so he hopes, for a team potentially looking for a true fullback.
“I want to be violent at all times”, Thomas-Jones told Steelers beat reporters Christopher Carter of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “My willingness to get in there and do it — I want to be in the messiest situations that I possibly can be.