Scout’s Eye with Matt Williamson: The Steelers secondary puzzle
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. I'm Matt Williamson. How's it going? At Williamson, NFL. Not a lot |
| 0:12.0 | shaking in Steeler land. So something I've been wanting to talk about for about a week or so now. |
| 0:19.1 | Now we finally get the opportunity is the state of the Steelers secondary. |
| 0:24.7 | They've made some additions. |
| 0:26.2 | There's some more options. |
| 0:27.6 | We still have a draft looming. |
| 0:29.6 | I don't think they're going to sign anybody else. |
| 0:32.0 | In the meantime, in the secondary. |
| 0:35.0 | One of my goals from the secondary from a year ago was to get faster and more athletic |
| 0:41.5 | on the back end. I think they semi-accomplished that, but not by leaps and bounds. So if they |
| 0:49.3 | were to draft, and I think they will, especially safety. If they were to draft the defensive back, |
| 0:55.0 | one of my not prerequisites, but preferred options would be speed, speed, speed. So, |
| 1:03.0 | we want to examine some things. I'm kind of looking from a depth chart perspective. So I think as much as ever, if not more than ever, the Steelers are going to live in nickel. |
| 1:18.6 | It's one of the reasons they haven't addressed a big nose tackle because they're going to have four defensive linemen on the field, two linebackers, and five defensive backs. I think that's going to be |
| 1:29.9 | by far the highest percentage of snaps plate. And I think it's pretty clear today what this looks like. |
| 1:39.3 | And basically what this whole podcast comes down to is what do they think of Jalen Ramsey or what's his |
| 1:46.3 | future and I think in the end the short answer to that question is it it leaves the door |
| 1:52.3 | open for a couple other moves you know draft wise but I'm also a little concerned about it |
| 1:58.2 | I mean he's really expensive And so if they're in |
| 2:03.9 | nickel, if they'd line up today, I think it's very clear that Porter and Dean are your |
| 2:11.8 | outside corners. Those two aren't going to do anything other than that. They're your outside |
| 2:17.4 | corners. So if you're in nickel, those two are't going to do anything other than that. They're your outside corners. |
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