From 0-star recruit to Steelers Day 3 draft pick, the future is now for this rookie
New York TimesPITTSBURGH — Growing up in Sioux Falls, S.D., a young Mason McCormick imagined two avenues for his athletic career. His father played basketball at a small college in South Dakota — so small that, “You wouldn’t even know it,” McCormick said — and pushed his son to follow in his footsteps on the hardwood. “My coach was like ‘Hey, I don’t know how much you’re gonna play on the defensive line, but I think you’d play a lot on the offensive line,'” McCormick remembers. “There’s not a lot of people in the state, and so there’s not a lot of that will spend time in the state to find these guys,” McCormick said. “But there’s a few guys every year in the state of South Dakota that are really, really good football players that kind of go unnoticed because these Power 5 schools don’t go into South Dakota.
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