For as much grief as the secondary has received in the wake of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ opening loss to the Patriots, I would argue that there was no more disappointing defensive performance on the night than inside linebacker Lawrence Timmons, who finished the game with just three tackles, despite the fact that he was the only defender to log every snap.
Timmons, 29, is entering his ninth season, and we have seen in prior years that he does have a tendency to start the year off slow. This was certainly the case in 2014, during which he racked up the missed tackles during the first three games of the season.