Steel Valley Has Got Some Work To Do

Steel Valley's quarterback, Ronnell Lawrence, celebrates after a WPIAL football playoff win against Washington in 2018.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Steel Valley's football team is going to look a lot different in 2019. The team lost their head coach, Rod Steele, back in January as he is now the head football coach at West Mifflin. Steel Valley also lost one of their best outside linebackers in Nahki Johnson who transferred to West Mifflin in December 2018. The Steel Valley Ironmen will also lose eight seniors next year as those players have now graduated high school.

Todd Hill and Kameron Williams were both the running backs for the Ironmen last season as they both rushed for 3,774 yards combined. Williams also lead the team in receptions (23) last year. They have both graduated high school and will not return to Steel Valley next season. Hill will play Division 1 NCAA Men's Football at Duquesne University in the fall.

Brady Miller is another key loss for the Ironmen. Miller scored 55 extra points last season as the Ironmen will now have to find a new field goal kicker. He had a great senior year at Steel Valley as besides the WPIAL football championship he won with Steel Valley in the fall of 2018, he won a WPIAL baseball championship with the Ironmen in May. Miller won two WPIAL championships with Steel Valley in his senior year of high school; that is something he is never going to forget in his life.

Steel Valley's new football coach, Ray Braszo, will have a lot of work to do this summer to get his players to put another WPIAL football championship trophy in the trophy case at Steel Valley.

One of the star returning players for Steel Valley is quarterback, Ronnell Lawrence. Lawrence will be a junior at Steel Valley in the fall as he passed for 1,054 yards and threw 12 touchdowns last season as Steel Valley's starting quarterback. Perhaps, one of the things that Braszo will want to see changed is the number of turnovers that Lawrence had last season. Lawrence threw just as many touchdowns as he did interceptions last season with 12.

As of now, Steel Valley will have 15 returning football players next season as Braszo hopes that more students at Steel Valley will want to play football next season. There has to be more students at Steel Valley that would want to play football at Steel Valley next season. Who would not want to play on a football team that has been known over the past decade as "GREAT"?

The biggest question that Braszo is going to think about in the summer is, "Which of these returning Steel Valley players will rush for the 3,774 yards that Hill and Williams produced last season?"

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