The Killer B’s era of Pittsburgh Steelers football was as disappointing as it was entertaining. Even as Ben Roethlisberger, Le’Veon Bell, Antonio Brown and Martavis Bryant were lighting up the scoreboard on offense, the team never got over the hump to win a championship.

For one unheralded member of the team, it still remains a mystery to this day how those teams were never able to reach a Super Bowl.

“I was on some of the best squads there. We should have been to at least one Super Bowl,” said former Steelers long snapper Kameron Canaday on the Run the Rack Outdoors Podcast. “My first year there was 2017. We had the three B’s: L. Bell, AB and Ben. Martavis Bryant. We were stacked on offense. We had probably one of the best o-lines in the league with Dave DeCastro, Maurkice Pouncey, Al Villanueva, Ramon Foster. Those guys were just veteran beasts.”

Canaday joined the Steelers in 2017 and won the starting long snapping job by beating out rookie draft pick Colin Holba. It was Canaday’s second NFL season after playing three games for the Arizona Cardinals in 2016 but being released after multiple bad snaps.

Canaday joined a Steelers team that was coming off an AFC Championship game loss the previous season. Despite posting a 13-3 record in the regular season and securing the number two seed in the AFC playoffs, the Steelers lost their first playoff game 45-42 against the Jacksonville Jaguars in the divisional round.

“We had no business losing to those guys,” Canaday said of the Jacksonville loss. “That was a heartbreaker.”

While that Jaguars team had a great defense, the disappointing part of the loss was allowing 45 points to an offense led by Blake Bortles. Leonard Fournette was also unstoppable on the ground, racking up over 100 yards rushing and scoring 3 touchdowns.

The following season was the beginning of the end for the Killer B’s in Pittsburgh. Le’Veon Bell refused to sign the franchise tag and sat out the 2018 season. Antonio Brown was benched for the Steelers’ final game of the season after skipping practice and was traded in the offseason.

Pittsburgh finished with a 9-6-1 record and failed to make the playoffs.

Canaday would remain the Steelers’ long snapper through the 2020 season. He was part of a consistent special teams trio with Chris Boswell and Jordan Berry until he was released during roster cut down in 2021 after being beaten out by Christian Kuntz. In his four seasons in Pittsburgh, despite being on talented teams and making the playoffs twice, Canaday never won a playoff game.

The Killer B’s era produced highlight after highlight, but never the postseason breakthrough that many expected. For Canaday and others in that locker room, especially as the playoff win drought continues to grow, it remains one of the biggest “what-ifs” in recent Steelers history.