The Steelers signed Cole Holcomb to a three-year contract on Wednesday.
Holcomb, 26, is an inside linebacker and a former fifth-round pick who spent his first four seasons with the Washington Commanders.
The consensus on Holcomb is that he’s a tackling machine (388 career tackles) who is a bit of a liability in pass coverage.
If that description seems familiar to you, it’s probably because it sounds a lot like Jon Bostic, a free-agent inside linebacker who the Steelers signed in 2018. I can’t really speak to the tackling machine stuff when talking about Bostic, but I do know he was a liability in pass coverage when paired up against a Chargers receiver late in the 2018 campaign.