The 2023 season feels like a new beginning for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the official start of the Kenny Pickett era following a transition year in 2022 in the wake of Ben Roethlisberger’s retirement. There’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s figuring out his way of doing things.
That includes making more use of the middle of the field, as he told Kevin Adams and Jersey Jerry recently on an episode of the Steel Here podcast, published yesterday. This is an area in which the offense has lacked both volume and efficiency in recent years, but it seems to be a concerted effort going into this season.