Generally speaking, you don’t want to see your free safety making 100-plus tackles in a season. For the Pittsburgh Steelers, their free safety, Minkah Fitzpatrick, eclipsed that mark on Sunday in his 13th game played of the season. He did it with a career-high 14-tackle performance against the Tennessee Titans, the third time this season he has recording double-digit tackles in a game.
“This is my first time doing it”, he acknowledged to reporters yesterday. He averaged under 80 tackles in his first three seasons without missing a game. “If that’s what I’m asked to do, then that’s what I’ve got to do.