Just as it looked as though the season was lost with the injury to Ben Roethlisberger, it’s very possible that Minkah Fitzpatrick saved it. Since the Pittsburgh Steelers acquired the 2018 first-round safety from the Miami Dolphins, the defense has played at an entirely different level, and it has been the driving force to their post-Roethlisberger success in 2019.
Fitzpatrick, out of Alabama, was the 11th-overall pick a year ago, and a player that Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and the rest of the staff highly coveted coming out of college.