Steelers vs Ravens: 4 surprises among the stats

Some of these numbers are ugly.

(AP Photo/Gail Burton)

Now that we’ve had some time to go back, re-watch the game and dig in a little bit we are going to talk about a few things in the stats that really stood out for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Their 28-10 loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday was ugly in all phases. But some of these stats might be uglier.

3 or maybe 0

It depends on how you look at it, but either way, the distribution of the run game is worrisome. The three represent the number of carries running back Kerrith Whyte got on Sunday. He was the second-leading rusher on the team. Benny Snell Jr., by comparison, had 18 carries. But the zero represents the number of carries by Jaylen Samuels. I get the idea of going with the hot hand but Samuels hadn’t seen more than seven carries in a game since Week 10.