Earlier this season, we wrote about the fact that Pittsburgh Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpatrick was racking up the tackles—and we also went into some context about how that’s not necessarily a good thing. At that time, he had reached the point at which he had recorded more tackles than any other defensive back in a single season in recorded team history—as far back as tackle statistics go, anyway.
With the regular season now complete (obviously, with the postseason underway), Fitzpatrick finished not only with the most tackles ever recorded by a Steelers defensive back, but the ninth-most tackles in a single season in franchise history.