This time a week ago, the Steelers were within a hair of winning the AFC North, one a fraction of a Troy Polamalu strand.
Now the Steelers are dangerously close to an abyss. At the bottom of which their 2025 season will lie scattered if they don’t at least tie the back-from-the-dead Ravens Sunday night.
True, their precarious position is a testament to how quickly things can change in the NFL. But don’t tell that to the masses.
They are already anticipating that Derrick Henry won’t encounter so much as a speed bump as he runs the Steelers out of their own stadium.