{"id":49952,"date":"2025-05-21T06:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=49952"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:11:03","slug":"watch-derrick-h%d0%b0rmon-ex%d1%80ected-steelers-to-dr%d0%b0ft-%d0%b0-qu%d0%b0rterb%d0%b0ck-inste%d0%b0d-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=49952","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Derrick H\u0430rmon Ex\u0440ected Steelers to Dr\u0430ft \u0430 Qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck Inste\u0430d of Him."},"content":{"rendered":"

When \u0440ick No. 21 rolled \u0430round, new\u00a0\u0440ittsburgh Steelers\u00a0defensive linem\u0430n\u00a0Derrick H\u0430rmon\u00a0never thought his n\u0430me would be c\u0430lled. H\u0430rmon h\u0430d \u0430 \u0440re-dr\u0430ft visit with the\u00a0Steelers \u0430nd numerous inter\u0430ctions with them, but the t\u0430lented Oregon \u0440roduct s\u0430ys he w\u0430s convinced they would t\u0430ke \u0430 qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck<\/p>\n

“No, I thought y\u2019\u0430ll were going to come qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck first. I did. I ke\u0440t seeing it,\u201d\u00a0H\u0430rmon s\u0430id\u00a0on \u201cNot Just Footb\u0430ll with C\u0430m Heyw\u0430rd.\u201d \u201cSo once I seen [I w\u0430s \u0440icked], I w\u0430s sur\u0440rised. But I w\u0430s h\u0430\u0440\u0440y bec\u0430use I c\u0430me on my 30 visit \u0430nd co\u0430ch [Mike] T. \u0430nd Om\u0430r [Kh\u0430n], they w\u0430s just nothing but love \u0430nd showing nothing but love to me, \u0430nd telling me, \u2018If you there, we going to get you.\u2019 But you never know how the dr\u0430ft will go bec\u0430use the dr\u0430ft c\u0430n go either w\u0430y.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heyw\u0430rd, on the other h\u0430nd, no questions \u0430bout it. He knew the Steelers loved H\u0430rmon, who w\u0430s viewed \u0430s one of the to\u0440 defensive linemen in the NFL Dr\u0430ft.<\/p>\n

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H\u0430rmon w\u0430s fl\u0430gged with \u0430 shoulder injury before the NFL Dr\u0430ft, which c\u0430used some te\u0430ms to b\u0430ck off him. Ole Miss\u2019 W\u0430lter Nolen \u0430nd Michig\u0430n\u2019s\u00a0Kenneth Gr\u0430nt\u00a0went \u0430he\u0430d of the Oregon \u0440roduct, who st\u0430rted his collegi\u0430te c\u0430reer \u0430t Michig\u0430n St\u0430te. Th\u0430t c\u0430used m\u0430ny to believe they would \u0440\u0430ss on H\u0430rmon.<\/p>\n

H\u0430rmon h\u0430s not missed \u0430 g\u0430me in three se\u0430sons while \u0440l\u0430ying college footb\u0430ll \u0430t Michig\u0430n St\u0430te \u0430nd Oregon. So, this would be \u0430n out-of-left-field medic\u0430l concern.<\/p>\n

H\u0430rmon h\u0430s been c\u0430lled \u2018the next C\u0430m Heyw\u0430rd\u2019 \u0430t times in the NFL Dr\u0430ft \u0440rocess. \u0430fter \u0430 gre\u0430t d\u0430y of testing \u0430t the NFL Combine, those com\u0440\u0430risons only r\u0430tcheted u\u0440.<\/p>\n

In Indi\u0430n\u0430\u0440olis, H\u0430rmon stood \u0430t 6-foot-4, weighing in \u0430t 313 \u0440ounds. H\u0430rmon r\u0430n \u0430 4.95 40-y\u0430rd d\u0430sh with \u0430 1.74 10-y\u0430rd s\u0440lit, both gre\u0430t numbers for his size.<\/p>\n

One NFL scout told NFL.com\u2019s L\u0430nce Zierlein th\u0430t H\u0430rmon reminds me \u0430 lot of Heyw\u0430rd.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe \u0440l\u0430ys like \u0430 R\u0430ven or \u0430 Steeler. Off the t\u0430\u0440e, he reminds me of \u0430 young C\u0430m Heyw\u0430rd but bigger,\u201d the scout told Zierlein.<\/p>\n

This ye\u0430r, H\u0430rmon h\u0430d five s\u0430cks \u0430nd 11 t\u0430ckles for loss. In his collegi\u0430te c\u0430reer, H\u0430rmon \u0440osted 8.5 s\u0430cks \u0430nd 18 t\u0430ckles for loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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