Last season, the Pittsburgh Steelers finished the year as the fourth-best tackling team in football, according to Next Gen Stats. After many years of struggling to get guys on the ground efficiently, the Steelers made significant improvements last season.
Then, they went and changed things up in a major way defensively.
New faces entered the fold and familiar players who were sound tacklers left, raising questions about the ability to tackle well for a second straight season. There were some struggles early in the year, but now coming out of the bye week, the Steelers are coming off the best-ever tackling performance since I started tracking missed tackles for Steelers Depot in 2016.