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It felt extraordinarily difficult in the moment. Looking back now, he believes it was also one of growth. He realized — with the help of nearly daily phone calls with his mother, Ma, — that he needed to stop trying to fast-forward to the end and lean into the healing process instead.“I would say I was my biggest enemy sometimes, thinking about the future when really I had to just lock into what was going on that day,” Fautanu said. “But I felt like once I did lock in and really just focus on the day to day, I really like turned a corner on my recovery.”
The Steelers feel confident enough in Fautanu’s recovery that they have finally executed a long-gestating plan to have Fautanu start at right tackle with Broderick Jones — their top pick in 2023 — moving to left tackle. (The real beneficiary of Fautanu’s misfortune may be Dan Moore Jr., who held down left tackle all of last season when Jones was forced to stay on the right side with Fautanu out. Moore signedwith Tennessee in March.)The plan is to bring Fautanu along slowly. It’s a plan Fautanu is fully on board with, though he’d be lying if he wanted to throw caution to the wind when that familiar adrenaline spike hit the first time he lined up when OTAs began on Tuesday.
“Once I took that first rep, it’s like ... ‘I don’t want to get out. I don’t want to want to get out,’” Fautanu said with a laugh, covering his mouth briefly after uttering an expletive to punctuate his point. “So yeah, it’s also like trying to be smart, but I’m a competitor, man. I love being out there.”So do the Steelers, who have invested heavily in the offensive line in recent years while their search for a franchise quarterback continues. If all goes as planned, Jones and Fautanu will serve as the bookends, with second-year center Zach Frazier in the middle, flanked by second-year guard Mason McCormick and veteran Isaac Seumalo.
Fautanu doesn’t think it will take long for the group to gel, in part because they’re already “super tight,” a bond that firmly took hold last fall as he navigated an uncertain path back to the field that was for more daunting than he anticipated.
It wasn’t fun. But it might have been necessary for someone who believes everything happens for a reason.The label’s lawyers said in letters included as exhibits in the lawsuit that they have encouraged mediation and want to reach a “mutually acceptable resolution.”
But the UMG lawyers said in the letters that James and Denton were not even personally parties in the 1986 agreement that covered their initial albums, and there is no evidence that they granted the label copyright that they can now reclaim.UMG maintains that the recordings were “works made for hire,” which would not allow for the reclaiming of rights. Salt-N-Pepa’s lawsuit says the women’s agreements with the label make it very clear that they were not.
The Queens, New York, duo of James and Denton became Salt-N-Pepa in 1985. They were later joined by, who was not part of the early agreements under dispute and is not involved in the lawsuit.