As we’ll do every week to get you ready for the upcoming game, our X-Factor of the week. Sometimes it’s a player, unit, concept, or scheme. Here’s our X-Factor for Sunday’s game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals.
X-FACTOR(S): T.J. WATT
Sometimes the X-Factor is more subtle, nuanced, and obscure. This is not one of those times. The X-Factor is T.J. Watt. He said it himself, he’s now healthy to impact games again. Now he has to do it.
And there’s little doubt he will. Watt has 12.5 in eight games and what’s effectively about seven, given the time he’s missed with in-game injuries this year.