The Pittsburgh Steelers, if you haven’t noticed, are having some issues at the moment. Their cumulative effect sees them sitting at 1-4 through five games, which is not a place where they customarily find themselves. And it’s hard to find the optimism that much is going to change in the very near future.
The problems are multiple, but talent is certainly one of them, and the options to address that in-season are limited. The trade deadline is still weeks away, however, and that is one avenue open to them that they are not unfamiliar with. The Athletic has a trade proposal for Pittsburgh—one for each team—in its latest power rankings, which has them ranked 30th in the league now, dropping two spots from last week.