Broderick Jones will be taking the torch from Dan Moore at left tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2025.
Jones’ career has been rocky thus far, though, and now he’s transitioning from right to left tackle in his third season in the NFL, which is especially concerning after he struggled in 2024.
According to Steelers beat writer Mark Kaboly, Jones is not off to a good start, with Kaboly noting that Jones looks slow despite carrying less weight.
“He’s been very slow on the get off. Nick Herbig has beat him pretty significantly where he is not even touching him,” Kaboly said 93.7 The Fan.
“Alex Highsmith was beating him bad and once you get into pads, maybe that has something to do with it when you’re just a straight rusher in that situation where you’re not going to get clocked from one side or another,” Kaboly added. “But I would just put it this way: he hasn’t got off to a good start.”
Kaboly also told CBS Pittsburgh that Jones “looks a little undersized to me” after the former first-round pick shed some weight during the offseason.
Jones is coming off a season in which he gave up 10 sacks and 43 pressures in 593 pass-blocking snaps. His early struggles in camp are particularly concerning for an offensive line that also includes an unproven Troy Fautanu at right tackle.
There’s still plenty of time for Jones to right the ship with more than a month left before Week 1, but it’s hard to have confidence in him turning things around after what we’ve seen out of Jones over his first two seasons in the NFL.
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