Drafted: Round 1, No. 21 overall<\/p>\n
Typically, this is the time of year when NOTHING is guaranteed. Coaches constantly stress that rookies — no matter how highly they\u2019re drafted — must earn their keep before even thinking about filling a starting slot. Apparently, though, the Steelers aren\u2019t doing that whole song and dance with Harmon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He goes out there with the ones,” defensive line coach Karl Dunbar said last week, via PennLive.com<\/a>. “He’s our left starting defensive tackle. You can write that.”<\/p>\n Instinctive and versatile with a well-rounded skill set, the first-round pick is the kind of defensive lineman who thrives in Pittsburgh. Harmon racked up an eye-popping 55 pressures in 2024 — 12 more than any other FBS interior D-lineman, per PFF — and now he gets to learn from a 15th-year pro with a doctorate in disruption, Cam Heyward<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drafted: Round 1, No. 21 overall Typically, this is the time of year when NOTHING is guaranteed. Coaches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[291,90,32950,390,254,117,571,3247,256,54,257,1769,258,340,285,7,1006,2456,890,579,249,56,6,609,57,394,1170,111,275,1416],"class_list":{"0":"post-141751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-abdul-carter","9":"tag-analysis","10":"tag-andy-borregales","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals","12":"tag-atlanta-falcons","13":"tag-baltimore-ravens","14":"tag-carson-schwesinger","15":"tag-chimere-dike","16":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","17":"tag-cleveland-browns","18":"tag-dallas-cowboys","19":"tag-demetrius-knight-jr","20":"tag-denver-broncos","21":"tag-derrick-harmon","22":"tag-donovan-ezeiruaku","23":"tag-football","24":"tag-jahdae-barron","25":"tag-jeremy-crawshaw","26":"tag-malaki-starks","27":"tag-mason-graham","28":"tag-new-england-patriots","29":"tag-new-york-giants","30":"tag-nfl","31":"tag-no-minute","32":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","33":"tag-tennessee-titans","34":"tag-trey-amos","35":"tag-washington-commanders","36":"tag-will-johnson","37":"tag-xavier-watts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}