Three Pittsburgh Steelers who may have saved their jobs following loss vs. Buffalo Bills
While Saturday night's fixture between the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers produced a lot of duds, there were some studs for the Steelers. With only three weeks to the regular season and one preseason game remaining, the "sand is running through the hourglass" as Coach Tomlin would say. So for these three, every rep matters, […]
While Saturday night's fixture between the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers produced a lot of duds, there were some studs for the Steelers.
With only three weeks to the regular season and one preseason game remaining, the "sand is running through the hourglass" as Coach Tomlin would say.
So for these three, every rep matters, and whether it was thanks to their own play or the faults of others, they stood above the rest during Week 2 of the preseason
DB Ryan Watts
Watts was a camp darling, recording multiple interceptions and consistently finding his way to the ball. The rookie sixth-rounder fell in the draft in part due to his lack of true position, but the CB-safety hybrid is showing everyone why the rest of the league forgot to draft him.
Watts led the team in tackles against the Bills, inserting himself into any and every run fit he could find. Making the roster as a sixth-rounder is never easy, especially in a DB room as stacked as Pittsburgh's.
But if Watts continues this over the next two weeks he may do just that.
LB Mark Robinson
Robinson is firmly entrenched in the middle of a roster battle as he aims to round out a deep LB corps in Pittsburgh. Games like Saturday will certainly help those efforts, as Robinson looked improved in pass coverage, sturdy against the run as the team's second-leading tackler, and was flying around on special teams.
LT Dan Moore Jr.
Dan Moore wasn't in the headlines on Saturday, and that's all that matters. With the two young tackles via Broderick Jones and Troy Fautanu either struggling with injury or their play, Moore might be cemented at his starting LT spot.
Now if Pittsburgh ever decided to play Broderick Jones at his actual position and allow him to take his lumps, grow, and develop over there as opposed to right tackle, I doubt this situation would have ever come about but I digress.
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