One of the biggest stories currently surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers is the injuries they’ve suffered at inside linebacker in recent weeks. In Week Nine, linebacker Cole Holcomb was lost for the season with a knee injury, and in Week 10, linebacker Kwon Alexander tore his Achilles and will miss the remainder of the season. On his All Things Covered podcast, Steelers CB Patrick Peterson talked about just how big of a loss it is with Holcomb and Alexander out for the season.
“That’s a real big blow because going into the season, I was just so confident in the three-man rotation that we had at the linebacker position with [Elandon Roberts], and Kwon [Alexander], and [Cole] Holcomb, and also Mark [Robinson] just being that special teams bell cow but also a reliable call we could call on,” Peterson said.