Earlier this offseason, there were a lot of questions raised about how the Pittsburgh Steelers would be able to replace the leadership that we saw walk out the door with the departures and releases of some stalwart veterans of the defense.
Now, we find a unit whose average age of the starting lineup projected to start the season opener is just a bit over 26 years old, which is a far cry from the ‘old and slow’ days that had been talked about before anybody was really even either old or slow.
There was even talk of a shift in culture that some of the older players saw, which is a topic that Troy Polamalu touched on on his way out the door, which raised some concerns about the makeup of the current Steelers team and whether or not they would be able to come together as a family, as had championship teams in the past.