3 Steelers who won’t be on the roster after training camp

2. Quincy Roche, EDGE

Back in the 2021 draft, the Steelers used a sixth-round pick on Quincy Roche out of Miami but was waived at the end of that training camp. The New York Giants then picked up the pass-rusher and have used him as a role player for the defense over the past two seasons with some real flashes from the youngster.

This offseason, though, Roche was brought back to Pittsburgh in an effort to help deepen the pass rush behind the team’s two stars, T.J. Watt and newly extended Alex Highsmith. Since the reunion with the team that drafted him, though, things have changed for the defensive front in terms of the personnel on the edge.

Not only did the Steelers get a steal on Nick Herbig in the fourth-round of the draft, a situational pass-rusher who graded out as an absolute force in the 2022 college season, but they also inked veteran Markus Golden to join the team as well in the late, late stages of free agency.

The result of that might simply be Roche being left out in the cold.

While Roche has flashed with the Giants when given the chance to get on the field in recent years, his production has still been just average and there’s obviously a reason that the New York coaching staff wasn’t necessarily inclined to give him more snaps in the defense. When you take that into account with the experience of Golden as a high-end backup and then the upside of Herbig, keeping Roche or saving $940K seems like an easy choice for Pittsburgh to make.