The Pittsburgh Steelers have wanted to bolster their physicality in recent years, and Ben Roethlisberger believes they did in this draft. Of course, physicality has been an emphasis in their previous two drafts, too. This year, it wasn’t just the draft, but also free agency, and even via trade.
“I think that this draft feels like, ‘We maybe haven’t been physical stopping the run. Let’s address that’”, Roethlisberger said on his Footbahlin podcast. “We went d-tackle first, we went edge rusher, third pick, fourth round. We went nose tackle. We went heavy defense. ‘Let’s stop the run; let’s show physicality’”.