stillers4me
08-17-2016, 05:50 PM
Ryan Shazier (http://www.nfl.com/player/ryanshazier/2543486/profile) blew by one receiver. Then another. Antonio Brown (http://www.nfl.com/player/antoniobrown/2508061/profile) fell off partway through, and when Shazier -- the 6-foot-1, 230-pound linebacker -- was done officially out-racing the Pittsburgh Steelers (http://www.nfl.com/teams/pittsburghsteelers/profile?team=PIT)' receiving corps, one of his teammates cackled, "It's because he has no hair!" Shazier doesn't know if hairlessness caters to the law of aerodynamics, but he laughed anyway. It was a laugh, after all, two decades in the making.
Shazier is the Steelers (http://www.nfl.com/teams/pittsburghsteelers/profile?team=PIT)' third-year linebacker, a 15th overall pick who's started two years already, but who pronounced at the start of training camp this July: "This is going to be my breakout year."
It's a long line of game-altering linebackers here in Pittsburgh. Shazier's selection was sandwiched between two other first-round linebackers (Jarvis Jones (http://www.nfl.com/player/jarvisjones/2540137/profile) in 2013, Bud Dupree (http://www.nfl.com/player/buddupree/2552289/profile) in '15), he plays inside next to a fourth first-round linebacker (Lawrence Timmons (http://www.nfl.com/player/lawrencetimmons/2495762/profile), 2007) and takes daily lessons from the dean of NFL linebackers, James Harrison (http://www.nfl.com/player/jamesharrison/2504844/profile). And yet, the way Shazier plays inside linebacker, the way he can seamlessly go from blitzing to covering, the way he can blow up a block, crush a tailback and outrun a receiver, it all has the potential to redefine the position.
Of course, definitions have never been a big part of Shazier's worldview..........
Read more @ http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000686243/article/steelers-lb-ryan-shazier-embraces-what-makes-him-different
Shazier is the Steelers (http://www.nfl.com/teams/pittsburghsteelers/profile?team=PIT)' third-year linebacker, a 15th overall pick who's started two years already, but who pronounced at the start of training camp this July: "This is going to be my breakout year."
It's a long line of game-altering linebackers here in Pittsburgh. Shazier's selection was sandwiched between two other first-round linebackers (Jarvis Jones (http://www.nfl.com/player/jarvisjones/2540137/profile) in 2013, Bud Dupree (http://www.nfl.com/player/buddupree/2552289/profile) in '15), he plays inside next to a fourth first-round linebacker (Lawrence Timmons (http://www.nfl.com/player/lawrencetimmons/2495762/profile), 2007) and takes daily lessons from the dean of NFL linebackers, James Harrison (http://www.nfl.com/player/jamesharrison/2504844/profile). And yet, the way Shazier plays inside linebacker, the way he can seamlessly go from blitzing to covering, the way he can blow up a block, crush a tailback and outrun a receiver, it all has the potential to redefine the position.
Of course, definitions have never been a big part of Shazier's worldview..........
Read more @ http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000686243/article/steelers-lb-ryan-shazier-embraces-what-makes-him-different