There are jobs to be won, and there also could be jobs lost, during Thursday's preseason finale
All in all, it’s going to be a typical preseason finale for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night at Heinz Field. The Carolina Panthers will be the opponent for the 12th straight summer. Some established players will be given the evening off so as to protect them for the start of the regular season. And there will be jobs won. Or, in some other cases, there will be jobs lost.
“I thought last year going into the Carolina preseason game, Derek Moye was on the outside looking in,” said Coach Mike Tomlin, “but he did enough in that football game to turn the tide for himself. But if you look at it over the history of time, you can go back to 2009. Stefan Logan returns the first punt in that game 80 yards and earns a spot for himself. Sometimes you have to study the history of this game and this series specifically to provide information for men so they can know that they have a legitimate opportunity to help themselves. And some of the examples of that opportunity are sitting in the room with them.”
In terms of the path most of the players on the bubble will have to use to make this roster, Tomlin was definitive.
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