Mention to you on yesterday's program that my favorite thing about the first day of OTAs isn't really the newness of anything, including the new players and everything, because we just

saw and spoke with all of them at the rookie minicamp. It's seeing everybody again for the first

time in five months who was there before. Good morning to you. Good Wednesday morning. I'm

Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily

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that I cover year-round. I hope you'll check those out as well. Day one of OTAs really didn't come with headlines.

These seldom do.

If you're the attendance-taking type, I'll remind that this is a wholly voluntary event.

So T.J. Watt not being there means about as much as Cam Hayward being there means about as much as Cam not having

been there last year and then going on to have tremendous 2024 season that he did. If there's one

player that I might pick on for not being there, It'd be Juan Thornhill.

He's a new safety.

He's a vet, but, you know, dude.

Otherwise, stuff played out the way it's been expected to play out.

Roderick Jones at left tackle, Troy Fautano at right tackle.

And as I'd also shared with you in advance, that it had happened this way,

Mason Rudolph carried himself with complete class as it relates to the Aaron Rogers situation.

Well, that's nothing to me. I've, there's been constant noise. That is the nature of the NFL,

so I have been used to that for a long time now. I'm doing nothing, but,

you know, be the best I can be and help our team. El Part team get better to be free.

Awesome. And that was that as far as anything remotely newsy. So what I did with my time there

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