How good are the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2022? That is, of course, the question that fans are anxiously contemplating—the anxiety always increased when introducing a rookie quarterback into the mold. If you go by Seth Walder’s Football Power Index—whatever that is, exactly—then you might as well pack it in now and wait for 2023.
As the ESPN sports analytics writer explains, the Football Power Index is a predictive model with a rating indicating “approximately how much better or worse — in points — that team is predicted to be, relative to an average NFL team on a neutral field”.