It’s been seven long months, but we finally have some real life football to talk about. Or at least as close to real as preseason games can get. The Steelers played the Jaguars over the weekend and gave us our first look at the roster in action. Several starters did not play, of course, but we got glimpses of several newcomers and the Steelers emerged from Jacksonville with a 31-25 victory.

This week, Read & React shares some observations from Week 1 of the preseason and takes stock of the roster battles to follow for the next couple of weeks.

RB: For some post-game snap reactions, I’ll plug my weekly takeaways column if you haven’t checked it out already. I had over 2,000 words worth of thoughts then, so I’ll try not to double down on anything I already wrote.

But now, the all-22 has b

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