All right. So here you are retired, you look like you've enjoyed retirement, and then you find out you're in the Hall of Honor. It's pretty special. Um. When Mr Rooney gave me a call this summer, you know, it wasn't even on my radar that, um, this was a possibility. And you know, it was hard for me to put into words how much it meant to me. But after giving this some thought, it's it's it's been really neat and I've been able to enjoy it. So I want you to put it into words. Put it in the
words for me. I just think, you know, when I when you think about the tradition and the history of the Steelers organization, and when I when I was here and I was playing here, I just wanted to to make a my teammates, uphold the standard with them, and uh, you know, to make the guys came before us proud and to be mentioned with them in the same breath and to be in the same space as them. It's
a it's a huge compliment. With the thirty choice in the two thousand five nf Bell Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers select Heath Miller tight end from Virginia. So you get to call the Steelers are gonna make you the number one pick, their first round pick. Yeah, your thoughts of that day. Tell us about that day and what your emotions were. Um, well, I try to stay even kill because everyone's telling me you really don't know what's going to happen, so don't get your heart set on one place,
which I didn't, but I knew that. The first team I met with at the combine was the Steelers, and then I came in here for a visit because I was injured. I didn't work out at the combine. I didn't work out at all for any team, so I didn't know how that would affect me going into the draft. So that was kind of the unknown. And it got to a certain point after a couple of teams didn't select me. Then I'm looking down the list and I'm like, well, they have a tight end. They have a tight end.
And the next team was the Steelers, So I'm like, if the Steelers don't take me, i don't know where I'm going to go after that. So yeah, everything worked out perfectly. It did, And are you as a rookie came into a team, it was pretty ready made. How how was that? And I mean it was as a young kid coming into a team with that many star players,
what was it like? Well, I knew I had to get my stuff together and I mess up pressure because yeah, they were fifteen and one the year before, and um, you know, there's just so many great players on that team. And um, like I said, I didn't want to let the team down. I didn't want to let those guys down because a lot of those guys were on the back end of their career and you know, this was
their opportunity to finally win a Super Bowl. And so yeah, when I stepped in the huddle, I knew that, um, you know, it was a good kind of pressure that I needed to meet the standard that they expected and and earned their trust and respect.