Entering the 2016 season, the Pittsburgh Steelers were looking to ditch the rotations at the linebacker position—both outside, especially, as well as inside—but due to the usual yearly circumstances, namely injuries, they have been forced to use a number of players, and now seem poised to continue to do so.
At the start of the season, they looked like they had it set up for Lawrence Timmons and Ryan Shazier to run the gauntlet and log every snap that they could, outside of when the Steelers moved to their dime defense, which was a trend that began in earnest after the bye week in 2015.