If you are not intimately familiar with names like Daniel Archibong and Ahkello Witherspoon and Delontae Scott, then, well, I don’t blame you. Two of them were on the practice squad prior to the last game (and are back there now). None of them have much experience playing in the Pittsburgh Steelers defense.
But they and others were asked to step into those roles this past Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers due to numerous injuries that the team was dealing with at all three levels of the defense, missing, among others, T.J. Watt, Minkah Fitzpatrick, Joe Haden, and Isaiahh Loudermilk.