At the end of last season, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin promised that changes would be coming to Pittsburgh. Like much of the fanbase, Read & React met that promise with some well-earned skepticism. Certainly, changes would be made, but it felt naive to believe they would go beyond the surface level. After all, Tomlin is now the longest tenured coach in all of North American professional sports. How likely was he to change his stripes?
We theorized in the linked column above that the Steelers would not be bringing back much of their free agent class.