Every single preseason, some metric comes out that gives the Pittsburgh Steelers low odds to make the playoffs or finish with a winning record, and every single preseason, I wonder why I haven’t seen Mike Tomlin’s head superimposed onto Han Solo yelling “never tell me the odds.” The Steelers have the 22nd-best odds to make the playoffs in ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI), at just a 29% chance to make the playoffs. In ranking all the 2023 playoff teams and their chance to return to the postseason in 2024, ESPN’s Bill Barnwell put the Steelers at No. 14 out of 14.
Barnwell: Steelers Least Likely 2023 Playoff Team To Make It Again, Even Though ‘They Seem To Defy The Odds’
