When the Pittsburgh Steelers launched their first official depth chart of the 2024 NFL season, two rookies stood on the prime of their respective positions. C Zach Frazier was one. The opposite was CB Beanie Bishop Jr.
That’s a heck of an accomplishment for the undrafted rookie. Bishop made the 53-man roster and sits atop the depth chart on the place. Or is all of it that it seems to be to be? Tomlin spoke about Bishop and the way his efficiency warranted the highest spot on the depth chart.
“I don’t know that he’s completed it but,” Tomlin mentioned Tuesday throughout his weekly press convention per video from the Steelers’ YouTube channel. “We now have player-elevation alternatives and issues of that nature in the course of the course of a piece week that determines how we divide the labor up. Beanie’s an thrilling younger man. We’ll watch him in the course of the week, together with some others, and we’ll make choices on the finish of the week that’s greatest fitted to profitable this sport.”
This isn’t the primary time Tomlin has pumped the brakes on the Bishop-as-starting-slot prepare. Simply after the second preseason sport, Tomlin had comparable phrases about Bishop, saying that he hadn’t confirmed himself because the beginning slot nook. To be honest, Tomlin did reward Bishop as being “an thrilling younger man”, so it isn’t like Tomlin views him negatively. Bishop merely has a number of work to do to show himself as a beginning slot nook within the NFL.
Both manner, the Steelers felt ok about Bishop to maintain him on the 53-man roster as an undrafted rookie. Bishop’s fundamental competitors on the spot, Thomas Graham Jr., was a part of the cuts to get all the way down to 53. The Steelers did signal him to the apply squad, nonetheless. Maybe the Steelers felt that they had a greater probability of Graham making it via to the apply squad than Bishop.
Regardless, Graham will possible be Bishop’s fundamental competitors in apply this week for the beginning slot nook spot. And Tomlin will choose whoever he feels offers the Steelers the very best shot at profitable Sunday in Atlanta. Whether or not that’s what the depth chart displays or not.
