For all the fuss kicked up with the Steelers' opener in Foxborough a week ago, from headsets to head-shaking playcalls, what might have gotten lost is something of potentially great significance to the franchise that didn't happen.
Kelvin Beachum didn't sign.
I thought he and management would work out an extension, and I'm guessing most of the Nation felt likewise. I thought it would go right to the wire, as is usually the case, but I also thought that, as with Troy Polamalu and so many others in recent years, it would happen on the way to the plane or the bus or even Gillette Stadium.
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