Welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast. I am your host, Tony Serrino, and this is your daily dose of all things Steelers.

Today on the podcast, I want to play for you a press conference that Ryan Chazier did yesterday with the Pittsburgh media.

He announced this press conference early in the morning, and a lot of people speculated, myself included that this might be Ryan Chazier's

retirement press conference or something like that.

It was anything but it was Ryan Chazier reiterating his desire to play the game of football

again and updating everyone on the progress that he's made and thanking all of the fans

and everyone who has supported

him throughout the process. So today, rather than doing a normal episode here, I'm going to

play for you guys, the 20-minute long press cameras, but I think it's more than worth it for

you guys to hear this guy and hear the struggle that he went through in the recovery that he's

going on. And just the incredible positive attitude that he has about the whole thing.

It really is an inspiration.

And, you know, we did a podcast two weeks ago about the Steelers organization and how great

this organization is.

And one of the things that I neglected to mention on that podcast is, you know, when you

talk, when you hear the Roonies and this

organization talk about the players that they look for on this football team, one of the big

things that they always talk about is drafting a person and a player, right?

Not just drafting a football player because he's good at the game, but because he's a good

person.

And Ryan Shazir certainly exemplifies that in so many ways. And it comes through on this press conference

today. So I'm going to play that. But before we do that, let's start with some news and notes. Ben

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