Cam Heyward Jokes About Wanting To Combat Ryan Clark In 2013

Cam Heyward has grow to be one of many higher gamers ever to put on a Steelers uniform. He’ll go down as a legend with the workforce for a lot of causes. Nevertheless, his time with the Steelers hasn’t been with out its struggles. Throughout his first few seasons, he discovered it arduous to see the sector as a teen on a gifted protection.

Because the Steelers’ first-round choice in 2011, Heyward most likely felt quite a lot of strain to make an affect early in his profession. By means of the primary 4 video games of the 2013 season, he nonetheless had not began a sport for the Steelers. The glimpses of his potential have been there, however he was nonetheless making an attempt to place all of it collectively. On the time, Pittsburgh held an 0-4 report after a brutal begin to the yr.

On The Pivot Podcast on Friday, Cam Heyward advised a joke about an interplay he had with former Steeler Ryan Clark on the time.

“I believe we had began off, like, 0-4,” Heyward mentioned, in accordance with video through the present’s YouTube web page. “Everyone’s just a bit bit tight. Like everyone’s simply making an attempt actually arduous, and out of nowhere, RC [Ryan Clark] got here at me like, he referred to as me a bust. And I used to be like, ‘Wait, maintain on. What? He simply referred to as me a bust.’ So, like, I’m sizzling… Like I’m making an attempt every part to get on the sector. And I obtained a man within the management position coming at me saying I’m a bust. And so I needed to combat RC on the time.”

The 2013 season wasn’t a fairly one for the Steelers. They began 0-4 and have been additionally 2-6 midway via the yr. Pittsburgh did handle to proper the ship finally and rounded out the yr with an 8-8 report.

On a aspect word, taking a look at that season as an entire actually places Mike Tomlin’s winning-season streak in a brand new gentle. After beginning the yr 2-6, Pittsburgh gained six of its final eight to complete .500.

Coincidentally, after that interplay Heyward spoke about with Clark, he earned a beginning position. He would go on to start out the ultimate 13 video games of that season, and he’s by no means left the beginning unit since. Everyone knows of the legendary profession he’s managed to construct since then.

Heading into 2025, Heyward finds himself because the veteran, a job he’s been in for fairly some time now. Because the Steelers will possible begin to get youthful on protection sooner or later, Heyward’s now the position mannequin, the identical factor he had round him within the veterans on the Steelers’ protection again within the early 2010s.