Now that the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2022 season is over, the team finishing above .500 but failing to make the postseason, we turn our attentions to the offseason and everything that means. One thing that it means is that some stock evaluations are going to start taking on broader contexts, reflecting on a player’s development, either positively or negatively, over the course of the season. Other evaluations will reflect only one immediate event or trend. The nature of the evaluation, whether short-term or long-term, will be noted in the reasoning section below.
Player: DL Cameron Heyward
Stock Value: Up
Reasoning: While Heyward was inexplicably left off of both the Pro Bowl and All-Pro lists this season, that does not take away from the strong season he had, and certainly not from the way he finished it.