Category: 2022 Steelers season

Ranking the 5 best Steelers on offense from 2022

Which young Steelers offensive player was the best in 2022?

2022 was a season of transition for the Pittsburgh Steelers on offense. After nearly two decades of consistency at quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger retired and the entire offense went through some growing pains. In the final few games of the season, the run game really got on track but the passing game was still very much a work in progress. Here are our five best offensive players from last season.

Ranking the 5 best Steelers on defense from 2022

Who was the best Steelers defender last season?

With so much turnover happening on both sides of the football for the Pittsburgh Steelers, we decided to look back at the 2022 season. The Steelers season was a series of highs and lows for the defense. The group finished strong but it didn’t stop the front office from making big changes. Here is our ranking of the five best defenders from last season. Let’s see how many of them aren’t returning for 2023.

Pittsburgh Steelers 2022 season takeaways

Is Kenny Pickett the future and how good was T.J. Watt?

Expectations were tempered for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2022. The retirement of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger brought about a rebuild on offense and venturing into the unknown. The defense dealt with some injuries but rallied late to almost get the Steelers into the playoffs. Here are our big takeaways from the season.

4 fascinating takeaways from the Steelers wide receivers

The Steelers receivers ranked among the best in the NFL last season.

Last season, the Pittsburgh Steelers went into the season with three wide receivers, all of which have the potential to be true No. 1 receivers. Pittsburgh opted to trade Chase Claypool away but was left with the tandem of Dointae Johnson and George Pickens.

The analytics gurus at FiveThirtyEight ranked the top receivers in the NFL based on their ability to get open, catching the football and yards after the catch. Here are four takeaways from where Johnson and Pickens landed.

 

Final 2022 grades for the Steelers defensive positional units

Which defensive positional unit was best in 2022?

The Pittsburgh Steelers defense, like the rest of the team, had its ups and downs in 2022. This group took up a massive chunk of the team’s payroll but frankly didn’t play like it for much of the season. But down the stretch, this group came together and helped the team secure a winning record but missed the playoffs. Here are our final grades for the Steelers defense.

5 reasons the Steelers were so bad at the beginning of the season

The Steelers got off to a horrible start last season.

Through the first eight games of the 2022 season, the Pittsburgh Steelers were an abysmal 2-6. Easily playing some of the worst football in the league and staring down a losing season.

But Pittsburgh found a way to turn things around during the bye week and went 7-2 down the stretch, nearly making the playoffs. How did they turn it around? We will dig into that later but for now let’s ponder why things went so wrong.

Steelers 2022 end of the year awards

We give out our postseason superlatives.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have wrapped up the 2022 season and everyone came away with mixed emotions about the outcome. The Steelers missed the playoffs but were one of the best teams in the NFL in the second half of the season. The players and coaches were a big part of that and we recognize the best of them with our postseason awards.

Final 2022 grades for the Steelers offensive positional units

How do the Steelers offensive positional units stack up?

Going into the 2022 season, no one really knew what to expect from the Pittsburgh Steelers offense. When you transition from a quarterback like Ben Roethlisberger and bring in two new starters on the offensive line, expectations had to be tempered. Handing out these grades is made more complicated by just how far the offense came during the season but never forgetting for all the improvement, this was still one of the lowest-scoring offenses in the NFL.

Twitter reacts to the news the Steelers are keeping Matt Canada

Steelers fans are not happy about the return of Matt Canada.

We all knew deep down it was a long shot that the Pittsburgh Steelers were going to fire offensive coordinator Matt Canada. We’ve talked at length about why it made more sense to hold onto him and lo and behold it happened. The news of Canada’s pending return hit Twitter on Wednesday and the Twitter reaction has been as expected. Here are some of our favorites.