I don’t think there’s much doubt that the Pittsburgh Steelers made a concerted effort to get younger this offseason, helping to nudge a couple of aging veterans into retirement while releasing another. In fact, the youth movement has been an ongoing process for several seasons now after the team identified that they were seemingly beyond their championship years.
There are now just 11 players on the entire 90-man roster who are or will be 30 years of age or older by the time the regular season starts, and if all of them are not locks to make the final 53-man roster, then they are the next best thing.