I wanted to look at how Pittsburgh Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpatrick fared in over-the-middle coverage last season. It’s an interesting topic, with several fans feeling that his performance has tailed off due to a lack of baseline interception production compared to earlier in his career.
The goal of this article is to see if more advanced metrics support or debunk that thought when Fitzpatrick is over the middle in coverage. Let’s start with over-the-middle coverage snaps and targets:
Right away, we see that Fitzpatrick had one of the highest snap counts in over the middle coverage. Those 82 snaps were second-most among qualifiers (81 players, 50 or more over the middle coverage snaps).