Longtime Steelers defensive end Cam Heyward will enter the team's record book when Pittsburgh hosts the New York Giants. Heyward will play in his 202nd regular-season game, breaking a tie with Hall of Fame defensive back Donnie Shell for the most by a defender in team history. The 35-year-old Heyward remains a force in his 14th season.
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“I’m thinking the sky is falling,” Heyward told The Associated Press. “You’re wondering what you’re doing wrong.”All that time spent watching allowed Heyward to absorb lessons from players with multiple Super Bowl rings stashed away somewhere. He learned not only what his job was on a given snap, but the other 10 guys on defense too.
He began investing in the community almost immediately after he was taken with the 30th overall pick in 2011, and maybe it’s fitting that Heyward’s record-breaking game came at the end of “Cam’s Kindness Week,” a series of events across Pittsburgh that included everything from a visit to a Children’s Hospital to a clothing drive to a donation to the athletic department to the football and girls flag football programs at Obama High School, his mother’s alma mater.
The 35-year-old already has three sacks this season to boost his career total to 83 1/2, a record by a Steeler defensive lineman. At 6-foot-5 and 295 pounds he can still get through double teams and swat down the occasional pass,that limited his effectiveness in 2023 an increasingly distant memory.
When Keeanu Benton arrived in the second round of the 2023 draft, Heyward told the rookie how vital it was to take care of yourself and shared various health-related resources with a player who could one day replace Heyward as the anchor of the defensive front.
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