Who knew back in 2003 that when Bill Cowher’s Pittsburgh Steelers traded up in the first round of the draft to take safety Troy Polamalu out of USC, that the pair would be going into the Hall of Fame together 17 years later? It’s the first time in the modern era that a player and the coach who drafted him and for whom he played is being enshrined in the same class.
With the two going in together, they got a chance to talk, and Cowher did an informal interview with Polamalu for the team’s website.