For the first time all season, Keith Butler/Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense sent serious heat in Week 6 against the Seattle Seahawks. Now, it’s a question of how much they’ll do it against the Cleveland Browns.
But back to Seattle. Against a backup QB in Geno Smith, the Steelers blitzed 14 of 32 applicable dropbacks (our charting is excluding a handful of RPOs where it’s difficult to determine the rush). That’s 43.8% of the time, a season-high for this defense. Here’s how the weekly numbers have looked:
Week 1 (Bills): 13.2%
Week 2 (Raiders): 30.