Ryan Shazier walks to podium, makes Steelers pick in moving NFL draft moment.
ARLINGTON, Texas – Ryan Shazier’s steps were slow and measured as he made a surprise visit on the stage at the NFL draft Thursday night, but the fact that the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker was walking at all provided the most emotional moment of the first round.
Shazier suffered a spinal cord injury in a game in December, and while he has made several public appearances in the months since – waving from a press box in Pittsburgh,
or cheering from the stands of a Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game – this was a dramatic moment.
Shazier was joined on stage by his fiancée, who hel
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