Welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast.

I am your host, Tony Serino, and this is your daily dose of all things, Steelers.

We are entering the last week of the Steelers OTA practices.

The official team activities come to an end this week on Thursday with the final practice.

I believe it's Monday through Thursday is the schedule this week for the Steelers, and today is actually going to be their team building exercise at Dave and Buster, so that

should be fun. But again, the last week of OTAs this week. So we'll talk all this week about

OTAs and all of the news coming out. Next week is actually minicamp. So we're going to talk about

mini camp next week. We'll go Tuesday through

Friday next week because minicamp is Tuesday through Thursday. And because I record this podcast

a day early, it'll give me a chance to talk about each mini camp practice in its entirety. And so

we'll switch the schedule next week. Instead of being Monday through Friday, we'll go to Tuesday,

or Monday to Thursday, we'll go Tuesday

to Friday next week. Today on the podcast, I want to talk about two players that have really

stood out at the OTA practices and two young players who I think can step up in 2018 in kind of

unexpected ways. But before we do that, let's start today as we do every day with some Steelers, news, and

notes.

The first one being Ben Rothesberger, who we talked about on Friday, and we talked about

Antonio Brown as well, and both of these players not being at the latest OTA practice.

It doesn't sound like either one is going to be at this week's OTAs either.

Ben Rathusberger is on vacation to be at this week's OTAs either.

Ben Rothesberger is on vacation with his family this week, and Antonio Brown, according to NFL Network, only likes to practice with his quarterback.

So he was with Ben at the high school where they were practicing together last week and now Ben

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