Pittsburgh Steelers DL Cameron Heyward made it off the team’s Reserve/Injured List after being sidelined for seven games. Aggravating a groin injury in the season opener, he returned last Thursday against the Tennessee Titans and played, as he admitted, more than they had planned.
Projected to play about 20 to 30 snaps, he ended up playing 41 on defense—plus another five on special teams, and those proved to be adventuresome, including his very first snap back on a football field since early September, for an extra point at the end of the Steelers’ opening drive.
“During the game, first PAT, it’s my first play of the game, and I’m thinking just, regular snap.