Former player Myron Rolle slams the Steelers over bizarre career advice
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Myron Rolle spent time with the Pittsburgh Steelers and never appeared in a regular-season game. More than a decade later, his frustration with how that ended has resurfaced.
Rolle recounted the circumstances of his release on the Ross Tucker Football Podcast.
The GM's explanation wasn't about football, and Rolle hasn't forgotten it
The GM's words, as Rolle recalled them: "We're not worried about you Rolle, you can go be president one day, you can go be a doctor. You're going to be fine."
His response: "That's not a good reason to let someone go and then patronize them by saying you'll be fine in your other career."
The executive he was referring to is understood to be Kevin Colbert, Pittsburgh's top football decision-maker at the time.
Colbert held the title of General Manager through 2022 and has not publicly addressed the comments.
Rolle is a Rhodes Scholar who studied at Oxford after Florida State. He was drafted in the sixth round in 2010 by the Tennessee Titans.
After two seasons on Tennessee's practice squad, he signed with Pittsburgh in 2012 and was released before the regular season.
Today, he is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando.
In a Johns Hopkins Medicine profile, he noted coaches would ask teammates about schemes and injuries. When they got to Rolle, the questions shifted to celebrity encounters and humanitarian trips.
