Day: May 9, 2020

Crash Course: Steelers rookies adapting to “virtual” pathCrash Course: Steelers rookies adapting to “virtual” path

This isn’t quite the way Anthony McFarland expected his NFL career to begin. Pittsburgh’s fourth-round draft pick is doing what he can to keep up during the first – and the NFL hopes only – ”virtual” offseason amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Sure, he’d rather be at the Steelers’ practice facility with the rest of the newcomers.

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Big question at NFL rookie webinar: locker room assimilationBig question at NFL rookie webinar: locker room assimilation

D.K. Metcalf says the best advice he received as a rookie was to sit down last at team meetings. Metcalf shared his experience as a first-year wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks with 547 players in the NFL’s first rookie webinar after the draft last month. Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew and San Francisco 49ers linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair also were panelists on the discussion moderated by Mo Kelly, a former Seahawks defensive back and the team’s current director of player engagement.

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