NFL Draft week has featured numerous appearances by present and former Steelers working to present again to their neighborhood because the world’s consideration turns to Pittsburgh for one of the most important occasions of the yr.
Steelers legend Lynn Swann and long snapper Cal Adomitis spent the primary day of the NFL Draft visiting with patients at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Shadyside.
Their outreach highlighted the American Cancer Society’s and NFL’s Crucial Catch initiative, a partnership that has improved cancer outcomes by supporting greater than 840,000 cancer screenings and impacted greater than 1.9 million lives since 2012.
Swann and Adomitis hung out and posed for images with patients who have been present process therapy, in addition to workers members, at UPMC Hillman. Swann even let affected person Ralph Dietz attempt on his Super Bowl rings.
The patients additionally acquired Crucial Catch blankets from the ACS.
Swann was a four-time Super Bowl champion with the Steelers who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001. The Super Bowl X MVP was the Steelers’ first-round draft choose in 1974, thought-about the best draft class in NFL historical past as a result of the Steelers chosen fellow corridor of famers Jack Lambert, John Stallworth and Mike Webster, and signed undrafted free agent signee Donnie Shell.
Adomitis, who performed at Central Catholic and Pitt, signed with the Steelers in December after stints with the Bengals and Eagles.
