As is the case with most teams around the league, the Pittsburgh Steelers like to have the option of exercising a rotation among their defensive front seven, with that rotation in recent years even extending to the inside linebacker group.
When it comes to the outside linebackers, the team had been relying almost exclusively upon fifth-year veteran Anthony Chickillo to serve as the rotational component of the group, logging a roughly even number of snaps on both the left and the right side of the defense, in place of both Bud Dupree and T.