Steelers Quietly Becoming One of the Most Dangerous Threats in Crowded AFC

December 5, 2016   ·   Brad Gagnon   ·   Jump to comments

If you ask all your football-loving friends and family members to make a short list of Super Bowl LI contenders, few of those lists will include the Pittsburgh Steelers, unless you live in or near Allegheny County.
That, however, is probably about to change. 
On the surface, the Steelers don't appear to be a major threat to AFC powerhouses like the 10-2 Oakland Raiders, the 10-2 New England Patriots or the 9-3 Kansas City Chiefs. After all, Pittsburgh is just 7-5 and still technically out of the playoff picture. 
But it's been a strange and complicated season for a team that hasn't had two of its top three offensive weapons, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and running back Le'Veon Bell, for key stretches.
Without the suspended Bell in Week 3, the Steelers scored just three points in a blowout loss to the cross-state rival Philadelphia Eagles. Without a healthy Roethlisberger in Weeks 7 and 9 (he returned from a knee injury after the team's Week 8 bye b...

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