JuJu Smith-Schuster hasn’t played any officers yet for his new team, the Kansas City Chiefs.
However, he is already seen returning to the Pittsburgh Steelers. At least one day, anyway.
Back in Keystone State to host a charity event, Smith-Schuster said Sunday.
“I could see myself here again,” Smith-Schuster said Sunday at a charity event in the Pittsburgh area, via CBS Pittsburgh’s Garrett Behanna. “Even today, that proves a lot, that I still have fans here who come to support me.”
After five seasons with the Steelers, including a 2018 Pro Bowl campaign, Smith-Schuster signed this offseason with the Chiefs in a one-year deal.
Sunday’s charity event, which raised money for Paws Across Pittsburgh Animal Rescue, the Miracle League of the South Hills, Vintage, and the Magee-Womens Research Institute, allowed Smith-Schuster to return home to say goodbye. basically.
“It was very important. It was huge to come back,” Smith-Schuster said. “I spent five years here, back in the city where I started my career. When you sign and go to a new team, you move so fast, I literally grabbed all my stuff and moved. I didn’t have time. to say goodbye to the fans. What we’re doing today is great. “
Taken in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft by the Steelers, Smith-Schuster produced 323 receptions for 3,855 yards and 26 touchdowns in his five seasons in Pittsburgh.
In 2021, he was limited to five games due to a shoulder injury.
Smith-Schuster will now be sought to strengthen a body of wide receivers from the Chiefs, along with his signed free agent teammate Marquez Valdes-Scantling, who lost Tyreek Hill.
The big role he plays and if he returns to his full form is to be seen on Sundays in the 2022 season. But this Sunday in June in particular, Smith-Schuster returned to Pittsburgh and the 25-year-old did not close the door on a Steel City meeting on the road.