While Pittsburgh Steelers rookie CB Beanie Bishop Jr. started the season as the team’s slot corner and retained that role even after CB Cameron Sutton came back from an eight-game suspension, it was Sutton who was Pittsburgh’s primary slot corner Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals. Bishop played just six snaps against Cincinnati while Sutton played 45, and Mike Tomlin explained in his weekly press conference that it was a game-specific decision because the team was more confident in Sutton as a communicator and in recognizing concepts against a team with the offense “complexities” that Cincinnati has.
“Just the complexities of what they do offensively, the fact that we were facing Joe Burrow.