If you’ve followed Steelers Depot, and the Pittsburgh Steelers for a while, you are well aware of the team’s issues in scoring on opening offensive drives. So far in 2025, things have been much stronger.
Today I will look at touchdown, field goal, and overall scoring rates. Included will be 2024 and 2025 to get a gauge of the improvements so far.
First, here are touchdown and field goal scoring rates for offenses on opening drives this season across the NFL:
Here we see that Pittsburgh is one of the few offenses to land above the mean in each.