Now that the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2022 season is over, the team finishing above .500 but failing to make the postseason, we turn our attention 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: S Damontae Kazee
Stock Value: Even
Reasoning: Kazee spent the past five years as a starter, so I can hardly say that his stock is up, but coming back from a broken forearm to be a significant and impactful contributor to the Steelers’ defense in the second half of the season helps set himself up better for 2023.