After seeing cam heyward’s instagram story, pittsburgh steelers fans began their monday with a warning. Heyward underwent some sort of offseason surgery, according to the stars’ tweets from his hospital bed. We now know why heyward went under the knife, according to nfl media’s tom pelissero. heyward sustained the injury during week 1 of the 2023 season, requiring groin surgery and recovery for over six weeks before returning. And although his return was notable for the steelers’ run defense, he wasn’t allocating the usual amount of sacks and pressures that steelers fans used to see.
Heyward would go on to point out on his podcast after the season that he was only playing on one leg for the majority of the season after his surgery, and that he wanted to return to his dominant self in 2024. To begin with, he had to clean his groin.
