As our Matthew Marczi recently wrote, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offense reportedly avoids the middle of the field due to Mike Tomlin’s fear of turnovers. Today, we’re examining if that’s true. Do more turnovers happen in the middle of the field than outside the numbers?
First, here are over-the-middle attempts and interception rates. For the sake of this argument, I sorted lowest numbers as best, to clearly see if limiting attempts correlated to less interceptions.
Right away, we see that Pittsburgh fared as one of the best teams in 2024 under these parameters. They had the second least over the middle attempts in the league (44), and were one of five teams with no over the middle interceptions.