{"id":1010006,"date":"2026-08-19T03:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1010006\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:44:15","slug":"dulac-shares-one-concern-for-steelers-exiting-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1010006\/","title":{"rendered":"Dulac Shares One Concern For Steelers Exiting Training Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Steelers breaking training camp, there is still at least one concern for Gerry Dulac about what wasn\u2019t seen. Basically, the entire starting secondary, or at least most of it, which spent most of practice observing rather than participating. Jalen Ramsey and Joey Porter Jr. are still on the PUP list, while others have had limited participation.<\/p>\n

Given how much the Steelers are placing on their secondary this year, how much of a concern is it that they were unable to observe it during training camp? They brought in Jaquan Brisker at safety, while DeShon Elliott is only now beginning to participate fully. Patrick Graham can talk about how it doesn\u2019t matter all he wants<\/a>, but you have to see something to know it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing that I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve been able to address the way they want to is in the secondary\u201d, Dulac said on 102.5 WDVE yesterday<\/a>, discussing the Steelers\u2019 just-concluded training camp. \u201cDeShon Elliott just came back and was basically a full-timer for the first time yesterday. But there\u2019s been no Joey Porter, no Jalen Ramsey. Jaquan Brisker has been out\u2014was out yesterday. But when you don\u2019t have Elliott, Ramsey, and Porter for the first two and a half weeks of training camp\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The only starting member of the Steelers\u2019 secondary who was a mainstay in training camp was Jamel Dean, their big free agent acquisition, but he was limited in the spring. They have hardly seen Porter at all, going back to the spring, which may have ruffled some feathers<\/a>. Brisker has been mostly available but has been recently out.<\/p>\n

Instead, what we have been seeing is a lot of Asante Samuel Jr., who has played well both in training camp and in the Steelers\u2019 first preseason game. In fact, that has been one of the silver linings, but you still need to see the starters. Instead, we have seen a lot of rookie seventh-round pick Robert Spears-Jennings, who may not make the 53-man roster. Even Brandin Echols is ailing, so we\u2019re seeing Devan Boykin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey know what they can do, but it\u2019s still a new staff with some new schemes, particularly at the back end\u201d, Dulac said, pointing to the questions in the secondary as his one concern for the Steelers exiting training camp. \u201cWhen you don\u2019t get to work with the people who are going to be playing, then that\u2019s probably a little disappointing for them. Is it troublesome for them? I don\u2019t think so, at this point. But it\u2019s certainly not the way that they would have preferred\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of course it\u2019s not what the Steelers have preferred. But you don\u2019t play important players in training camp unless they\u2019re healthy. The question is, how much time do they need on the practice field? Not just individually, but also collectively. And not just as a secondary unit, but as a part of the defense as a whole. Because the linebackers need to know what the safety is doing, too, and vice versa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Steelers breaking training camp, there is still at least one concern for Gerry Dulac about what…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1010007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[76835,24895,1232,1545,62,939,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1010006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-102-5-wdve","tag-gerry-dulac","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports","tag-trending","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117120117801474686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}