Steelers Reveal Key T.J. Watt/Alex Highsmith Change for Defense | Derrick Harmon and Defensive Depth

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Pittsburgh Steelers need to free up more chances for T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith to be game wreckers. Christopher Carter breaks down how that will happen.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Chris Carter here on the Locked On Steelers podcast.
0:03.5	Today we're going to talk about a change the Steelers are making their defense that's
0:07.3	finally going to happen, something they should have been doing and how they're going to do it.
0:12.4	That and more of your calls taken here on the Locked on Steelers podcast.
0:15.5	Let's get into it.
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0:38.7	I'm your host, Chris Carter, big of you, your daily dose of all things on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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0:50.2	We thank you for making us your first listen every day because we're your team every day. All right, Steelers fans, let's get into this.
0:55.7	Now, I tease this segment at the end of last Friday show when we were talking about how Alex Highsmith said he's very confident.
1:04.1	The Steelers are going to reach an agreement with T.J. Watt, we don't know when that's going to happen, but probably is going to happen.
1:09.7	Like, that's just that.
1:12.5	But he also talked to us about something else that, that would happen there at the end
1:18.3	of the Steelers Thursday, Thursday, uh, OTA's practice.
1:21.1	And this also further told me that there, there isn't much doubt with the Steelers that
1:25.9	T.J. Watts going to be part of the fold this year.
1:28.2	They're not trading them away because they're putting together a plan for how both Watt and Highsmith can work better together in 2025.
1:37.5	Because I asked Alex Highsmith about the potential of flipping him and T.J. Watts spots in the defense more often during games.
1:48.3	And he gave me a full answer here saying it's part of the plan. Here was Alex Highsmith when I asked him that.
1:54.2	Alex, at the end of last season, T.J. talked about the potential of being open to maybe moving around a bit more based off of how the teams are trying to scheme you guys up.
2:01.6	How have you guys talked about that as a team just trying to free both of you guys up to keep people guessing where you line up?
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