Finally, a Steeler gets some props
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List of the Top 50 players? No Steelers. Top 25 wideouts, and Hines Ward is only listed at number 23? Someone is smoking something good. For a team one season removed from winning their fifth Super Bowl, they sure aren’t given much credit.
Finally, though, someone recognized the talent in the organization. ESPN.com’s Jeffri Chadiha realized that just because you aren’t in the headlines all the time (mostly for the wrong reasons, at least if you’re a Bengal), it doesn’t mean you aren’t immensely talented. The only “Doh!” about this is that it’s for a player in the least-utilized position for the Steelers over the last 15 years: Tight End Heath Miller. Miller was picked as Chadiha’s offensive breakout player, and for good reason: he’s likely to spend a lot of time as the team’s slot receiver, if Offensive Coordinator Bruce Arians has his way. And, given that Mike Tomlin knows he’s going to have to make a big impression to win over most Steeler fans — after all, we are probably the hardest fans to please because of the city’s history of great sports teams — it’s pretty likely that Arians will be given a lot of creative freedom, and a very long leash as long as things start off smoothly. Let’s all hope his grooming of Peyton Manning wasn’t just a fluke.
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