It’s not uncommon for a team to have one or two position groups hit hard due to availability issues over the course of a season. The Pittsburgh Steelers struggled to field quarterbacks in 2019, and that obviously didn’t work out too well. Last year, it was the inside linebackers whom they had a hard time keeping on the field.
Their budding star, 2019 first-round pick Devin Bush, suffered a torn ACL in the first half of the season. Five or six games toward the end of the year, the man who replaced him, Robert Spillane, would got down with a knee injury as well, and wouldn’t return until the postseason.