Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said that his team is preparing for the San Francisco 49ers as if reigning Defensive Player of the Year Nick Bosa, who is holding out amid a contract dispute, will be playing Sunday.
"Yes, we are preparing for Bosa," Tomlin told reporters Tuesday (h/t Kevin Patra of NFL.com) while referencing the Steelers' "similar circumstance" with their own edge-rusher superstar, T.J. Watt.
"It's prudent for us to assume that he is gonna be there and prepare in that vein, as opposed to be surprised. We were in a similar circumstance with a dynamic rusher a couple of years ago in T.