PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) – It still hasn’t really sunk in for Cam Heyward yet. The Steelers captain said his wife told him this morning ‘it really did happen last night’. Heyward said he was emotional this morning talking to his kids about winning the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award Thursday night in Las Vegas.
“It’s pretty surreal,” Heyward said Friday. “I was not ready for the entire night. I told (people) I was not winning this award. I tried to temper expectations. I didn’t want to let people down.”
It would be one of the rare times in his life he would have let anyone down. Heyward does so much in the community he even devoted a week during the season where he attended and led several charity events per day.
“We all need to understand to be a great player is just not enough,” Heyward said. “The community needs us. When I first got here, I had guys like Brett (Keisel), Aaron (Smith) showed me how to act. Having that opportunity, I want to provide my teammates with that. They are not going to follow the same lane as what I may do, but they need to provide opportunities to give back.”