Is James Pierre playing for a future starting job at this point?
The emergence of James Pierre allowed the Steelers to move on from Darius Slay, but what does his future hold? In his sixth season, he is only now emerging as a viable defensive contributor. He still managed to play a healthy number of snaps in previous years, but now, Pierre isn’t just playing due to an injured player ahead of him.
In fact, a couple weeks back, the Steelers started James Pierre and made Darius Slay a healthy scratch. Pierre ended up going down in that game, and Asante Samuel Jr.