Nunn paid immediate dividends after joining the team full-time in 1969. He helped the Steelers find Blount, who was playing at Southern University, in 1970, and Ernie Holmes the next year and Joe Gilliam from Tennessee State in 1972. “I wasn’t just a black college players scout,” says Nunn. But the credibility he had with black college football coaches was now the Steelers’ credibility.
