Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator Kevin Butler has gotten to be around Devin Bush for a couple of months now and he is thrilled that he is on their squad. According to Butler, the teams plan heading into the draft was to take a linebacker in the first round with the name of Devin. Devin White went fifth overall to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and trading up that far would have required too many assets.
Instead, the team decided to move up to the 10th position and selected Devin Busy and all the reviews around his play the last couple of months have been raving.
Butler said that general manager Kevin Colbert did a great thing by trading up to nab Bush.
“I’m not going to criticize the guys that we had there before, but we needed help there and Kevin did a good job of helping us out there,” Butler said, via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “I’m glad we got him. I hope we can use him, and he has success. I think he wills, but who knows? You don’t know until they start playing. They all look good in shorts. It matters when they get those pads on. . . . The two things I can’t teach them are being aggressive, and the other is speed. He’s got natural speed in terms of hitting. That’s something his mother and daddy gave him, so I’ll be interested to see what kind of hitter he is.”
Butler also noted that the team had to trade up to get Troy Polamalu. It might not have been his goal but that's a lot of extra pressure added to a guy who hasn't even appeared in an NFL game.
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