Don’t call him the dimebacker. Call him the dime linebacker. Small difference, I know, and regardless of how you want to designate him, Marcus Allen is the Steelers’ guy in dime packages. With Ulysees Gilbert III landing on IR with a back injury, Allen is next man up, Keith Butler confirmed talking to reporters Thursday.
“He will be for right now,” Butler told reporters according to a team transcript. “But 27 [Marcus Allen] has a good idea of what we want from him. I think he will be OK there for right now when we go into this game.