Much has been made of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ rotation of personnel within the secondary this past Sunday. Conversation has also surrounded their outside linebackers working in and out of the lineup between T.J. Watt, Melvin Ingram, and Alex Highsmith.
Less has been made about the rotation that they worked along the defensive line, even if it was prominent, exhibited by Cameron Heyward’s only playing two thirds of the team’s defensive snaps. Heyward played 74 percent of the snaps or more in all but one game last season.
But even with Stephon Tuitt out, the Steelers wanted to keep it moving along the interior, so we saw Tyson Alualu get more snaps, especially since they played so little in base, while Chris Wormley was on the field nearly half the time, and we also got meaningful snaps from Carlos Davis and Isaiah Buggs.