If there is one thing that Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin likes, it’s linebackers. After all, he has used the team’s first-round draft choice on a linebacker six times out of 15 classes, including three inside linebackers in Lawrence Timmons (2007), Ryan Shazier (2014), and most recently, Devin Bush (2019).
It’s only natural for a head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers to have an affinity for a position that has been so vital to the team’s history, including Hall of Famers. And he had a message to his inside linebackers in part of his pre-game ritual, telling them that the day’s game on Sunday would be decided by the linebackers.