The Pittsburgh Steelers have gotten four starts out of five games from rookie first-round safety Terrell Edmunds, though that wasn’t the plan heading into the season. It was supposed to be veteran Morgan Burnett, but he has only been healthy enough to participate in two games, and start in one.
We are quickly approaching a point in the season in which it is not at all clear if Burnett will ever regain his starting job, and whether or not that happens surely depends a great deal on what Edmunds has done, and perhaps will continue to do, with the opportunity that the veteran’s misfortune has provided him.