Myles Jack was retired by the time the regular season began. Yet here he is starting for the Pittsburgh Steelers, which wouldn’t have been surprising at all a year ago—since that is what he was doing at the time. But once he was released as a salary cap casualty, it was reasonable to assume his time in Pittsburgh was over.
And it would have been without a series of unfortunate events. The Steelers lost two starting linebackers to injury and Elandon Roberts has been battling through injuries of his own in the second half of the season. The latter may not be able to go on Sunday.