Robert Golden’s Performance Should Earn Consideration For Future Playing Time

Over the course of the past two games, fourth-year Pittsburgh Steelers safety Robert Golden has begun to turn the corner—not, perhaps, in his own mind, but in the minds of outside observers, the ones who have had him pegged as a lifetime special teams player and nothing more.

Golden has been called into action on the defensive side of the ball for the past two games, and the vast majority of the game prior, due to the fact that starting strong safety Will Allen has missed that length of time with an ankle injury, which has greatly stressed the team’s depth at the back end.

While his play was spotty when filling in cold off the bench three games ago, Golden’s performance was much more…