{"id":258043,"date":"2026-08-03T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258043\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:35:09","slug":"pads-come-on-cam-heyward-reacts-to-no-tackling-at-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258043\/","title":{"rendered":"Pads come on, Cam Heyward reacts to no tackling at camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

LATROBE (93.7 The Fan) \u2013 We all could probably imagine being in a job or school or anywhere for 15 years and while the location doesn\u2019t change, all of your direct bosses do. You are one of the team leaders and now dealing not only to you have questions, people are coming to you for answers.<\/p>\n

Cam Heyward is back at St. Vincent College, now 37-years-old, and there is so much new in a familiar setting.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s from Pittsburgh, he has a lot of respect for the tradition here, but he’s trying to forge something new, and I think that’s gonna apply to everybody in our locker room,\u201d Heyward said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a high tempo with no breaks. The practices are over two hours earlier. The benches players would sit at in-between drills are gone. And now when the pads come on Monday, no live tackling.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ll see, you know when you can’t tackle you really got to stress your technique and I’m looking forward to doing that,\u201d Heyward said very diplomatically, hiding any doubt he might have in Mike McCarthy\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

Eli Heidenreich from Navy to home to Latrobe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about taking great angles, making sure you go for the far leg, and then on the other side making sure you finish every drill. So you know we can really just stress those details.\u201d<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s different, heading into full pads without full contact doesn\u2019t seem to be a deal breaker for Heyward in terms trusting his new head coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand there’s going to be growing pains, but being professional means doing what your coach asks of you,\u201d Heyward said. \u201cAnd we’re very big on servant leadership and serving the entire group. Coach McCarthy said to us, he wants to serve us. We’re all gonna be in this together and we’re gonna put our hands in the pile.\u201d<\/p>\n

What does resonate with the 11-time Steelers captain is McCarthy saying it\u2019s going to take 68-plus guys to win a Super Bowl. That he included the practice squad Heyward said shows the respect he has for all in the room. <\/p>\n

After building a tight relationship with Mike Tomlin, Heyward is prepared for change.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t want to go extinct.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/ 93.7 The Fan<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to, the dinosaurs didn’t look what happened to them,\u201d Heyward said, pausing slightly for effect. \u201cSo for me, I got to embrace change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATROBE (93.7 The Fan) \u2013 We all could probably imagine being in a job or school or anywhere…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22432,303,8203,1418,73,75,74,1833,88228],"class_list":["post-258043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-cam-heyward","tag-football","tag-mike-mccarthy","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}