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 Saturday night’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders
X-FACTOR: OT Chukwuma Okorafor
Of course, emotions will be running high in this game just days after Franco Harris’ sudden and tragic death, the team still honoring him and retiring his jersey at halftime. That’s going to be a factor and intangible difficult to quantify or explain and there’s a balance between harnessing that emotion for something productive and not letting it consume you.