If there is one position this season where the Pittsburgh Steelers expected to have a contender for the number one player in the NFL, it’s at edge rusher, and that contender is T.J. Watt. The staff at Pro Football Focus agreed, ranking Watt higher than any Steeler has thus far in the site’s position-by-position top 32 rankings heading into the 2021 season.
PFF ranked Watt as the second-best edge rusher in the NFL behind only Chicago Bears’ superstar Khalil Mack. Here is what article author Ben Linsey said about Watt:
“Going purely off of pass-rushing production, it’s difficult to top what Watt has been able to do over the past two seasons in Pittsburgh.