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Mike Hilton Touts ‘Good Changes’ Brought To Defense By Additions Of Devin Bush, Steven Nelson

Though they were able to pile on the sacks, and had a solid pressure rate overall, the Pittsburgh Steelers defense is coming off of yet another disappointing season. Which means that the team, yet again, used a first-round draft choice on a defensive player, for the seventh year in a row. The team had almost exclusively alternated between offense and defense with their first-round pick for a long time up until this recent streak.

It started with Jarvis Jones in 2013, then Ryan Shazier, Bud Dupree, Artie Burns, T.