NFL Draft week has featured countless appearances by current and former Steelers working to give back to their community as the world’s attention turns to Pittsburgh for one of the biggest events of the year.
Steelers legend Lynn Swann and long snapper Cal Adomitis spent the first day of the NFL Draft visiting with patients at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Shadyside.
Their outreach highlighted the American Cancer Society’s and NFL’s Crucial Catch initiative, a partnership that has improved cancer outcomes by supporting more than 840,000 cancer screenings and impacted more than 1.9 million lives since 2012.
Swann and Adomitis spent time and posed for photos with patients who were undergoing treatment, as well as staff members, at UPMC Hillman. Swann even let patient Ralph Dietz try on his Super Bowl rings.
The patients also received Crucial Catch blankets from the ACS.
Swann was a four-time Super Bowl champion with the Steelers who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001. The Super Bowl X MVP was the Steelers’ first-round draft pick in 1974, considered the greatest draft class in NFL history because the Steelers selected fellow hall of famers Jack Lambert, John Stallworth and Mike Webster, and signed undrafted free agent signee Donnie Shell.
Adomitis, who played at Central Catholic and Pitt, signed with the Steelers in December after stints with the Bengals and Eagles.