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Steelers Are In Tier Of Their Own In Key Turnover Stat

Everybody was talking about it last week at 5-3, and the voices have gotten even louder now that the Pittsburgh Steelers are 6-3. How are they pulling it off? The yardage differential is a mess at negative 865 for the season. The point differential is a mess at negative 26 for the season.

Timo Riske of Pro Football Focus released an article breaking down a number of key stats league-wide a little past the halfway point of the season and one stat jumped off the page and stood out above the rest.

That is the turnover contribution which plots all teams on a graph of total points lost through give aways versus total points gained through takeaways.