Troy Fautanu played in just one game as a rookie, but he understands he can’t play that way this year. Despite his lack of in-game NFL experience, the Steelers need him to play like a veteran. He is their only option at right tackle, their depth outside otherwise perilously thin. While they re-signed Calvin Anderson, they are not in a rush to see him on the field.
“I can’t go out and do first-year things”, Fautanu told Joe Rutter of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review last week. “That is the expectation I have for myself, too.