Steelers star T.J. Watt is in the middle of the longest sack drought of his career—and teams are avoiding him in the run game, too. So far, the team isn’t really acknowledging it, let alone addressing it, at least publicly. On Thursday, DC Teryl Austin didn’t have much to say, but Patrick Queen commented on it earlier in the week.
“I think it’s just situational,” he said of opponent tendencies to run away from Watt via the Steelers’ website. “You just see half the time the ball is on the left hash, and they get it to the right, and they start dropping balls off on the right hash running to the left.