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Cole Holcomb Is Pittsburgh’s Best Inside Linebacker, Ben Roethlisberger Argues

To start this season, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense has been bad. There’s no sugarcoating it. They got beaten up by the New York Jets in Week 1, and more recently, they weren’t good enough against the Seattle Seahawks. One of their biggest issues is stopping the run. They struggle with physicality, getting pushed around by other teams. Their inside linebacker duo of Patrick Queen and Payton Wilson has been part of the problem. Ben Roethlisberger thinks that Cole Holcomb should be given more chances.

“I think [Queen] played better than he did Week 1,” Roethlisberger said Tuesday on his Footbahlin’ podcast.