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The Terrible Take - Episode 1632 - August 22, 2025

The Terrible Podcast - Steelers Podcast via Steelers Depot

The Terrible Podcast

Sports, Football

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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August 22, 2025 - For Episode 1,632 this Friday afternoon, Alex Kozora discusses the contract situations of Cam Heyward and Chris Boswell and questions the narrative they chose to "hold-in" during training camp and the preseason. ⁠⁠steelersdepot.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.3

Welcome to the Terrible Take, a daily segment telling Steelers Nation what's on our mind.

1:05.7

I'm Alex Kizura. What is a hold-in anyway? That's what I'm asking myself after the summers Kim Hayward and

1:13.0

Chris Boswell have had. Two men looking for revised contracts so top-of-the-market play can be

1:19.2

reflected in top-of-the-market pay. Adam Schaefter dropped word of both their requests mid-training

1:24.7

camp and everyone assumed it was a hold-in. So when Hayward returned to practice earlier this week, and Boswell kicked in the preseason, the hold-ins were declared over. But did they ever start? A kicker hold-in is kind of a funny thing to say knowing what their camps always look like. A lot of it is stand aground in watching the world go by. If a tree falls in a forest, doesn't make a

1:44.4

sound. If a kicker holds in, does anyone notice? Still, Boswell routinely dressed for practice

1:49.3

and kick before and during practice, never in a formal 11-on-11 period, though that only

1:54.5

took place, I think, once during camp, but Boswell worked about as much as you'd expect a 34-year-old

2:00.3

established kicker who does not need

2:02.3

reps would. Hayward's absence was more noticeable. During team period, he only worked during the

2:08.6

acclamation days of training camp the first four before doing only individual work, if not outright

2:14.7

resting, the rest of the summer in Lat Trobe. But for Holden, practicing

2:19.6

at all with the team is uncommon if not unheard of. T.J. Watt sure did not do that in 2021. So,

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