After the Pittsburgh Steelers secondary bottomed out in Seattle, giving up five touchdown passes and allowing over 11 yards per pass attempt, the coaching staff finally resolved to offer up a change in the back end.
During the course of the past two weeks, fourth-year cornerback Brandon Boykin has been rotated in liberally as the primary nickel back, playing in the slot for the majority of each of the past two games, which means that he has played a majority of the team’s snaps.
That obviously represents a substantial change of pace in comparison to the first 11 games of the season, and he has doubled his season total snap count many times over in the process.