Last season, the Pittsburgh Steelers defense allowed 4.36 yards per rush and that was good for a 25th overall league ranking. Additionally, that was the highest average allowed by a Steelers defense dating back to at least 1988 (depression and tears caused me to stop looking back any further).
While the rush defense was bad, according to the average, it wasn’t as bad as many of you might think. In an effort to dig further inside those rushing numbers, I decided to look at the success rates of all of the runs that weren’t kneel downs.