STEELERS PLAN TO UTILIZE 'ERASE BUTTON' FOR 2 STAR PLAYERS DURING HARD KNOCKS FILMING

The Pittsburgh Steelers will be featured in a whole new way this season. 22 NFL seasons have come and gone since the start of HBO’s Hard Knocks in 2001. This year, the cable network will be doing something they’ve never done with the series before. They will show an entire division.

This year’s series is called “Hard Knocks: In Season with the AFC North”.

The Steelers have never been featured on the Emmy Award-winning show, and this could be a galvanizing experience for the Steelers as a team. But not for everyone. The Steelers aren't typically a franchise that allows outsiders inside team happenings. So this will be new. 

And per The Athletic's Mark Kaboly, coach Mike Tomlin might have a plan to shield two of his star players from offering too much on the series.

"It kind of came out of nowhere because the Steelers don’t like to open their doors and let outsiders see how the sausage is made. But when you can have four teams featured over six weeks, it doesn’t seem like that much of an ask for any of the organizations," Kaboly wrote in The Athletic's 'Whiparound'. 

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"I wouldn’t expect much to come out of it for Pittsburgh. Mike Tomlin, T.J. Watt, Heyward, Minkah Fitzpatrick and Russell Wilson are polished PR machines. I would imagine the Steelers will keep Patrick Queen and Najee Harris away from the cameras. But even if they don’t, there is an erase button available in the editing process."

The Steelers have avoided an appearance on Hard Knocks each season ... until now. And they're not thrilled that it's happening now.

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