Our summer evaluation<\/a> of Troy Fautanu wasn\u2019t quite as glowing, but noted flashes.<\/p>\n\u201cHis actual camp was good. While he\u2019s not the biggest tackle with \u201cguard height,\u201d he has length and a big and powerful lower half. It allows him to explode out of his stance, and it\u2019s hard to beat him around the edge when he takes a good set. The sack he allowed against Hunter was due in part to his set not getting enough depth and width, Fautanu more vertical because of the 3T in his gap. Point is, on his normal 45-degree kick set, he\u2019s a hard man to run around.<\/p>\n
T.J. Watt praised him for varying up his sets, Troy Fautanu, an experienced tackle who knows how to keep rushers off balance. The biggest and most consistent negative I saw in camp was him being prone to getting beat to the inside, and he\u2019ll have to work on redirecting against interior counters a bit better. But the traits are there. Had he stayed healthy, I could\u2019ve evaluated his run blocking a bit better, something that can be harder to do watching camp live.\u201d<\/p>\n
We gave Troy Fautanu a B-grade, second-best of any Steelers\u2019 tackle only behind Dan Moore Jr.\u2019s B-plus.<\/p>\n
Though he was only a rookie and touted higher than veterans like Seumalo, Fautanu was a 24-year-old senior with a more refined game than typical Steelers\u2019 first-round picks.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s polished from a technique standpoint,\u201d Fittipaldo said.<\/p>\n
Healthy now, Troy Fautanu will have every chance to meet Pittsburgh\u2019s confidence. He\u2019s entrenched as the team\u2019s starting right tackle, the depth chart cleaner with Moore leaving for Tennessee and Jones flipping over to left tackle. Like the rest of the young front five, there\u2019s serious potential. But that also means there\u2019s plenty to prove, and Pittsburgh needs its young draft picks to meet the moment.<\/p>\n
If not, the running game won\u2019t be successful, Aaron Rodgers won\u2019t be protected, and the Steelers will be starting over, needing to invest in quarterback, offensive line, and receiver next offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not for a second have the Pittsburgh Steelers tempered expectations over first-round pick offensive tackle Troy Fautanu. Though…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5078,1232,1545,62,939,5079,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-3838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-joe-starkey","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-trending","13":"tag-troy-fautanu","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114724326823162620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","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=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}