"We'll see what they're running and see what their coach has got lined up for us tactics-wise and go from there. Just try and shut him down," Berry said about his meeting with Hayne in a podcast interview with The Woot and Wye Show. Berry during punt training in Brisbane. Credit:Simone DePeak "From what I've seen of him, especially on the punt and kick returns, he's doing really well. That's an area he can definitely make his mark in the NFL. In the running back sort of stuff he's obviously made a few great plays. "Once you get into that starting group it's a lot different an animal than sitting in the pre-season with a few other guys. He's done an amazing effort to get to this point and hopefully he can continue to build on the games that he's had."

Berry, the son of former Essendon skills coach Jason Berry, came from the University of Kentucky but moved back to Melbourne after failing to land a trial with an NFL club. He saved enough money by working at McDonald's to return for another shot and was picked up by the Steelers. He battled it out with another Australian punter, Brad Wing, who ended up being traded to the New York Giants who lost by point to the Dallas Cowboys in their opening game. "It's a long hard slog," Berry said. "Most guys don't make it on their first year or sometimes second year out of college. It's something you've got to really want to do and you just have to really focus on it." Jordan Berry as a teenager in Melbourne before chasing his dream to be an NFL player. Credit:Michael Clayton-Jones Berry's debut could hardly have been a bigger occasion, coming up against the defending Super Bowl champions and their great quarterback Brady in the wake of the 'Deflategate' scandal, as well as 'the Gronk' Rob Gronkowski, one of the league's leading tight ends. "It was the loudest crowd I've been around. Outside of grand final day you'd never find anything like that," he said. "It's just unreal getting out there in that environment."