Steelers quarterback Skylar Thompson reveals the switch he had to flip to try and make the final 53-man roster in Pittsburgh

There is only one way to make the roster as a fourth-string quarterback headed into Pittsburgh Steelers training camp.

You have to run with whatever opportunity comes you're way. You have to be undeniable when you receive your shot.

And while Skylar Thompson's spot is far from solidified ahead of Tuesday's roster cutdown deadline, he's had what has been the best preseason of his career thus far. He received the opportunity to play so much because of Will Howard's injury.

But how has he played so well? He credits that to something else.

Skylar Thompson being himself in Pittsburgh

"I feel like sometimes in the past, I've tried to be too perfect, and I feel like that's kind of taken away from me being myself," Thompson told the media over the weekend. "That's the biggest thing that I've learned coming into this opportunity, I got to be myself. I can't be something that I'm not. I feel like when I have that approach and that mindset, I make more plays than I don't. I feel like that set me free coming into this preseason, and has allowed me to go out there and have fun playing the game again and loving playing with my guys."