LATROBE, Pa. (AP) -No matter the sport, coaches often say an athlete shows the most improvement at any stage of his career between the first and second seasons.
So far, the Pittsburgh Steelers are seeing exactly that in second-year defensive end Ziggy Hood.
Hood, the Steelers’ first-round draft pick in April 2009, didn’t play much as a rookie while making the adjustment from a 4-3 defense at Missouri to the Steelers’ not-easy-to-learn 3-4 system. Unlike many first-rounders, he wasn’t expected to make an immediate impact. And he didn’t.
During this Steelers training camp, he is. He’s not starting, but he’s starting to show exactly why the Steelers drafted him.
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