Cam Heyward vividly remembers a December road game last season at Cincinnati, where the Pittsburgh Steelers were quickly running out of healthy bodies along the defensive line.Heyward was already sidelined with a torn pectoral muscle for a game the Steelers won by four Le'Veon Bell Jerseys points. He saw teammates along the line start to fall because of injury.He doesn't think the Steelers will have that problem this season.Heyward is back and ready to anchor a Antonio Brown Jerseys young unit that gained depth and experience in his absence."We can go into the game with three nose tackles or six or seven ends because guys can play multiple positions," Heyward said. "It just gives us depth and if someone gets injured, we don't feel like we're cramming around."I remember the Cincinnati game, I was talking to the outside linebackers like "can y'all play defensive end," but I don't think we'll have to deal with that this year. Ryan Shazier Jerseys "Since entering the NFL as the Steelers' first-round draft pick in 2011, Heyward played 85 consecutive regular-season Ben Roethlisberger Jerseys games – third-longest active streak among NFL defensive ends at the time. But that string ended when a hamstring injury forced Heyward to miss two games. His season concluded soon after when Heyward tore a pectoral muscle against Dallas in November.The 28-year-old Heyward, who enters his seventh season, wants to put a forgettable 2016 in the past."I feel like my season got cut short," Heyward said. "I don't really count last season because I was injured too much, so I'm back to my sixth year."An improved Stephon Tuitt joins Heyward to give the Steelers a formidable tandem along the defensive line.Tuitt, the Steelers' second-round pick in 2014, stepped up significantly to lead the line in Heyward's absence. Tuitt set the tone the week after Heyward's season-ending injury when he tied a single-game career high Heath Miller Jerseys with two sacks and was chosen AFC Defensive Player of the Week."When Cam Heyward went down, I really grew a lot," Tuitt said.