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Steelers Sack Numbers Must Improve From Within

The Pittsburgh Steelers posted a 25-year low in sack production last season when they only managed to tally 33 of them during the 2015 season. And to be frank, that was with a bit of a late-season up-tick, registering a season-high six sacks in the penultimate game alone, nearly a fifth of their total output in one game.

Since that time, the team’s leading sack producer over the course of the past two seasons, Jason Worilds, retired. He led or shared the team lead in sacks in each of those seasons, with eight the year prior and 7.