The Pittsburgh Steelers’ busy free agency included the signing of safety Keanu Neal. Today I wanted to provide some data context to what he provided last season in coverage following my run defense article on him, along with Pittsburgh’s 2022 safeties as well, considering Neal’s services could largely replace the departed Terrell Edmunds, who is now with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Let’s get right to it, starting with 2022 coverage snaps and targets for quantity value:
Here we can see the 2022 starting safeties for Pittsburgh led the way in coverage-snap opportunities. Minkah Fitzpatrick had 539, which ranked 31st out of 95 qualifying safeties.