The British rugby player, formerly of the Worcester Warriors, is a longshot to make the Steelers, but you’d be mad to write him off
There are no rational reasons to expect Christian Scotland-Williamson will make the Pittsburgh Steelers as a tight end. He is a rugby player, late of the Worcester Warriors, and though he stands 6ft 9in and 275lbs, he never played football before this year. He is here only because of an NFL program that sends international players to the US as practice players for a full year with a vague hope they can earn a real roster spot next season.
Given the stratospheric odds of a rugby player making the 53-man regular-season roster of a professional football team – Jarryd Hayne’s eight games with San Francisco in 2015 being a rare exception – Scotland-Williamson’s chances are poor. Most watching him at a recent Steelers offseason workout assume this is a lark, a bucket list checkmark, and that next year he will return to England and rugby.
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