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 tilt against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
X-FACTOR: Starting Cornerbacks
Whoever that may be. Right now, it’s looking like Josh Jackson and James Pierre. Not the ideal pairing to face Tom Brady, who has torched far better Steelers’ defensive backfield’s before. Even with an assumed larger role, Pierre’s stock is somehow trending in the wrong direction, seemingly losing snaps to Jackson who just arrived in Pittsburgh six weeks ago.