This article originally appeared on SteelersNOW.com.
With the selection of Michigan wide receiver Roman Wilson in the third round of the 2024 NFL Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers now have five players on the team from the state of Hawaii — Wilson, Nate and Nick Herbig, Isaac Seumalo and Breiden Fehoko.
Wilson and Nick Herbig grew up playing youth football together and were teammates at Saint Louis High School in Honolulu.
“We kind of grew up together a little bit,” Wilson said on a conference call with Pittsburgh media. “So, that’s my guy.”
The chances of playing with a high school teammate in the pros is very slim. It’s something that Wilson doesn’t take for granted.
“I never thought I would be on the same team as him in the NFL. But as I got closer to the draft day, there were more and more rumblings about it. I could kind of see it happening before it started,” he said.
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