The Pittsburgh Steelers are going to have to think long and hard about what approach they are going to take to the inside linebacker position this offseason, because it is certainly not an area of the team that they can leave untouched. It was their biggest issue on either side of the ball down the stretch, and there are no signs of it getting better.
This all centers around the injury to Ryan Shazier, the team’s fourth-year Pro Bowl mack linebacker, who set the defense as the ‘quarterback’ of the unit, the one with the green dot on his helmet indicating that he got the plays in through the microphone from the sideline.