The Pittsburgh Steelers are again within the UPMC Rooney Sports activities Advanced sooner than they’d anticipated, having been ousted from the postseason within the opening spherical, which sadly marks the fifth consecutive season wherein they didn’t win a postseason sport—a brand new file for the franchise for the reason that merger. But once more, they discover themselves present process the exit assembly course of sooner than anticipated, which suggests so are we.
The Steelers did arguably carry out at or above expectations this yr by going 9-7-1 and making the postseason in any respect, a mirrored image of simply how a lot expertise they misplaced in the course of the offseason, from the vast majority of the offensive line to Mike Hilton, Bud Dupree, Steven Nelson, and Vince Williams—to not point out Stephon Tuitt, primarily.
Whereas we’d not know all the main points about what goes on between head coach Mike Tomlin and his gamers throughout these exit conferences, we do understand how we’d conduct these conferences in the event that they had been let as much as us. So listed below are the Depot’s exit conferences for the Steelers’ roster following the 2021 season.
Participant: Tyson Alualu
Place: DL
Expertise: 12 Years
Tyson Alualu’s twelfth season within the NFL, and his fifth with the Steelers, consisted of all of 57 snaps, sadly. The veteran nostril deal with suffered a fractured ankle just some snaps into the second sport of the season, ending his yr. He was rapidly positioned on the Reserve/Injured Checklist, and that was all she wrote, although he continued to stay very concerned with the crew.
Evidently, the protection struggled with out him, and their substitutes for nostril deal with suffered as compared. Isaiah Buggs was the primary man up, and he was ultimately benched as a result of efficiency earlier than in the end being launched late within the season.
The Steelers ultimately added Montravius Adams within the second half of the season, and he logged the vast majority of the snaps at defensive deal with, however whereas he’s extra athletic, he’s not fairly the stout run defender that Alualu is and had been so important to their success in that division.
Alualu had solely moved to nostril deal with in 2020 after the Steelers misplaced Javon Hargrave in free company, however he took to it like a duck to water. After all he had some familiarity with the position, however by no means on a full-time foundation, and he proved in 2020 that he was as much as the duty.
Though he’ll flip 35 years previous in Might, he has already mentioned that he intends to return for the 2022 season, for which he’s already below contract, saying that he doesn’t need tot finish his profession this manner. This was the primary vital harm of his profession, so there shouldn’t be vital issues about his well being as a result of a freak ankle harm.
