Steelers' DeShon Elliott Out for Year? Defense Needs Trade to Fix Itself? | DBs Grades Hit New Low

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Pittsburgh Steelers' safety DeShon Elliott appears to be out for the year with a knee injury, which could force the defense into needing a trade to fix its problems.

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0:00.0	The Pittsburgh Steelers defense continues to struggle this season,
0:05.2	and the question we have to ask is,
0:07.1	do they have the tools to fix themselves,
0:08.9	especially now that the Steelers are not expecting to Sean Elliott to return this season to do that?
0:13.8	We discussed that with Alan Saunders of SteelersNow.com
0:17.2	and go over our Stars and Skullsgraves.
0:18.9	We got some bus tickets to hand out, y'all.
0:20.9	Let's get into it.
0:27.7	You are Locked-on Steelers, your daily Pittsburgh Steelers podcast, part of the Locked-on
0:34.0	podcast network, your team every day. Hello, welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast. I'm your host, Chris Carter, big a year-a-duty dose of all things on the Pittsburgh Steelers. As always, you can find it showing your favorite podcasting apps and on YouTube. Like this video if you enjoy. Subscribe to this YouTube channel to get all of your daily Monday, the Friday episodes as well as our bonus content.
0:55.2	I think you for making us your first list and every day because we're your team every day. And today's episode is brought to you by Fandu. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. If your bet wins, you'll get $300 and bonus bets to use across the app. We'll have more on them later. as a simple for four were joined by the man himself alan sunderers he's back from steelesnow.com
1:13.2	always here to join us for a tuesday on them later. As a simple before, we're joined by the man himself, Alan Sonders.
1:13.2	He's back from SteelersNow.com.
1:15.5	Always here to join us for a Tuesday episode.
1:21.2	Alan, news came out, Jeremy Fowler, ESPN, first with this, but the Steelers are not expecting Deshaun Elliott to return this season.
1:23.2	His ACL is intact.
1:24.2	That's good news, but the rigor, the things he's going to have to do to recover
1:28.8	might not make him available until the end of the season. What does this do for the Steelers
1:35.2	defense? Because Deshaun Elliott was a big part of what their plans were, where we're including
1:39.4	this year. Huge. I mean, I can't ever remember a Steelers player going from like afterthought free agent signing
1:45.4	to absolutely critical piece of the puzzle as fast as DeShon Elliott has.
1:51.0	You saw what happened when he missed games two and three of this season with a knee injury.
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