No, that’s not Charlie Batch, it’s Drew Allar!
The Steelers have announced the jersey numbers the rookies will wear this weekend when they take the field for rookie minicamp.
Third-round pick Drew Allar will wear #16, most recently made popular by longtime Steelers backup QB Charlie Batch.
First-round draft pick Max Iheacachor will wear #71. That announcement was made after he was drafted in Pittsburgh.
Second-round WR Germie Bernard, drafted out of Alabama will wear #17.
Third-round pick, cornerback Daylen Everette from Georgia, will wear #23.
Safety Robert Spears-Jennings out of Oklahoma will wear #28.
Running back/wide receiver Eli Heidenreich, out of Navy and Mt. Lebanon, taken in the seventh-round will wear #29.
Fifth-round fullback out of Indiana, Riley Nowakowski is #37.
Fourth-round wide receiver Kaden Wetjen out of Iowa will wear #42.
Iowa guard Gennings Dunker, also out of Iowa, will wear #73 and sixth-round pick, defensive end Gabriel Rubio, out of Notre Dame will wear #96.
The rookies reported to Steelers headquarters on Thursday and will get their first real work in, in front of new head coach Mike McCarthy.
