Troy Fautanu has likely heard the chatter for a year now about how good he is, despite his limited playing opportunities due to injury. Now healthy, he is ready to prove he is as good as advertised. So far, he can only show it in Latrobe. But soon, he’ll take it into the preseason, and then the regular season, and so on.
Fautanu missed almost all of his rookie season due to a knee injury. After sitting him in Week 1, Mike Tomlin started his first-round rookie in Week 2 last season. At the time, he had already been recovering from a knee injury suffered in the preseason.