Like we do every four weeks, we visit our Pittsburgh Steelers’ defensive charting and highlight any new or cool data the chart provides us.
– Excluding kneeldowns and pre-snap penalties, the Steelers’ defense has been on the field for 546 snaps. That’s an average of 68.3 per game. They’re on pace for a little under 1100 in the regular season. They only 944 snaps last season. So seeing the field a lot more.
– The Steelers have been in nickel a whopping 62.1% of the time, or 339 of 546 snaps. Their base 3-4 has been used just 32.