Steelers' Derrick Harmon Truly Helped Run Defense? Or Mirage Before Facing Derrick Henry, Ravens?
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Chris Carter here in the Locked-on Steelers podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | Today we got Nick Fairbaw. |
| 0:05.0 | I want to talk with him. |
| 0:06.3 | Has the Steelers run defense improvements? |
| 0:10.3 | Have they been real or are they a mirage as they get ready for their final test of the regular season |
| 0:16.1 | and the test that will get them either into the playoffs or missing it for the first time since 2022. |
| 0:21.9 | We talk about it here on the Locked on Steelers podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | Let's get into it. |
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| 0:45.6 | Hello and welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast. I'm your host, Chris Carter, |
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| 1:09.7 | account and use code locked on NFL and you'll get $20 off your first purchase. As before, we're joined by the man himself, Nick Farabaw. He's back on this show. You know him from PennLive.com, the Steelers reporter there. Nick, Mike Tomlin and Tara Lawson, a very tongue in cheek, when we ask about the improvements in the run defense. |
| 1:44.6 | And they keep saying, you know, it's just Derek Harmon. And they're being silly. They're being, you know, facetious a bit when they say that. But there's been real progress in this run defense. At least I think so. Now, I'm not going to say that this is, they've now all of a sudden, they are the absolute best run defense. But in the past three weeks, they have allowed the fewest rushing yards of any team in the NFL. And yes, the Browns aren't a great |
| 1:50.3 | team to run against when Quinn Sean Jenkins isn't there. But they did do that against one of the |
| 1:54.5 | top rushing offenses in the NFL in the Lions and against the Dolphins, who were also one of the |
| 1:59.3 | top rushing offenses in the NFL. |
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