Pittsburgh Steelers DT Keeanu Benton struggled in the team’s Week 1 win over the New York Jets, with New York running for 182 yards and Benton struggling to maintain his gap. Despite his struggles holding down nose tackle, Mike Tomlin said the Steelers have no plans to move Benton and they expect him to improve week-to-week.
“No, there’s no real strong consideration of moving people around at this juncture. Keeanu is expected to get better from game one to game two like everyone else. I think it’s a reasonable expectation, at least it is for me. I think once you’ve been in the stadium and you’ve played 60 minutes of football, you know something about yourselves that you didn’t prior to going into it, and I think that knowledge, that experience individually and collectively, is a catalyst for improvement between game one and game two,” Tomlin said in his Tuesday press conference via the team’s YouTube channel.