Improved starting field position will go a long way to helping the Pittsburgh Steelers score more points in 2025. That’s the mentality special teams coordinator Danny Smith is taking. It’s a team goal but one that starts with his unit, chiefly a kick-return group that finished last in the NFL last season under the league’s new kickoff model.
“The biggest thing that we need to improve on, in my opinion, is field position,” Smith told reporters Tuesday via a team-issued transcript. “This is a game of field position. We need better field position. You know, all over the field.