The Pittsburgh Steelers have gotten back to their roots and focused on defense in recent drafts. In fact, they’ve spent seven straight first-round picks beefing up that side of the ball.
Due to their cap situation to start the 2020 offseason, however, Pittsburgh had to cut a few players with unreasonably high cap numbers. Among them were outside linebacker Anthony Chickillo and inside linebacker Mark Barron. In addition, linebacker Tyler Matakivch joined the Buffalo Bills this offseason.
The Steelers always look to have quality depth at the linebacker positions, but right now, they have just a few unproven commodities.