First-year wide receiver Tyler Vaughns has been attracting attention to himself this preseason. Indeed, it’s the first look most Pittsburgh Steelers fans are getting of him, having signed to the team’s practice squad in September of last year after being cut by the Indianapolis Colts as a rookie college free agent out of USC.
He did, however, spend the entire year on the practice squad, and is hoping at worst to resume that post. His impressive playmaking to close out each of the first two preseason games—in the first, breaking a tackle to score the game-winning touchdown, and in the second, recording three catches on the game-winning drive to set up the score—has been notable, as has his rapport with rookie first-round quarterback Kenny Pickett.