Pro Football Focus is giving their best crack at predicting the win/loss ranges for all 32 teams this season. What a team’s record could look like in a best and worst case scenario. For the Pittsburgh Steelers, PFF sees a wide variety of outcomes.
On the low-end of things, the 10 percentile outcome, they predict the Steelers could finish with an ugly 5-11 record. How could that happen? If Ben Roethlisberger is no longer Big Ben and the defense fails to create the takeaways they did a year ago.
They write:
“Ben Roethlisberger isn’t the same guy upon his return.