Following the season opener, the Pittsburgh Steelers brought back one of their own in safety Terrell Edmunds. The team’s first round selection in the 2018 draft, Edmunds played his first five seasons in the Steel City, since spending time with the Philadelphia Eagles, Tennessee Titans, and Jacksonville Jaguars.
With other teams, defensive opportunities were far less than his time with Pittsburgh. Considering this, along with Minkah Fitzpatrick and DeShon Elliott in the fold, his likely immediate role could be on special teams. So, I wanted to look at his career contributions in that regard.
Here are safeties regular season snaps and grades on special teams since 2018, with Edmunds results highlighted:
What jumps out right away is Edmunds most recent 2023 season, where he was comfortably above the mean in snaps and grades among safeties in the six-year sample size (71.