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Carter's Classroom: Tuitt's return major part of Steelers' run defense fix

Kevin Colbert expressed some of the best offseason news in favor of the Steelers Tuesday when he told Dale Lolley that Stephon Tuitt "absolutely" wants to play football in 2022. Tuitt's absence for the entire 2021 season left the Steelers' defensive line without one of its best players, and the group would be all but barren after the season-ending injury to Tyson Alualu.

But after a stellar eleven-sack season in 2020, it was Tuitt who was supposed to be the biggest piece of the defensive front next to T.