There's a lot to like about Derek Harmon in his first NFL season.

One of my favorite traits is that he's a young man of few words.

When he speaks them, they come with some value.

Good morning to you.

Good Tuesday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

This is Daily Shot of Steelers, presented by our good friends at the Fandul Sportsbook.

It comes your way bright and early every weekday.

If you're into hockey and or baseball, today is the day to be checking out

my daily shots of Penguins and Pirates. It's a theme day here on the eve of New Year's Eve,

where I'm looking at how all three of Pittsburgh's Major League teams weathered 2025, and I think

weathered is an appropriate verb in this time frame. This episode here won't be any different,

and it'll begin with Harmon the first of their draft class back in the spring.

The other day in Cleveland, when that game ended,

and the locker room was pretty much a wasteland of long faces, whispering voices.

Harmon sat by himself in a stall near the front of the room up next to Cam Hayward.

And as I'd approached him, and we went back and forth for about 20 or 30 seconds on what it just happened,

as I began backing off, the kid said to me, unsolicited, we'll be ready.

And he meant ready this coming Sunday against the

Ravens. Yesterday, in facing a whole crowd of cameras and microphones on the south side, he had this

pretty neat thing to say spanning all of eight seconds. I always say, don't let no loss get to your heart and don't let no win get to your head.

So that's my mentality.

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