Pittsburgh Steelers 2022 Postseason Honors, Component 1

January 14, 2023

Back in September, as I usually do, I released a set of essays offering my tackle the Steelers-specific honors forecasts, consisting of a collection of surveys for Steelers Country to consider in. A follow-up showed up in November, and also Steeler Country reacted. Since the 2022 normal period remains in guides, and also we can take a look at the year all at once, it’s time for another round.

This write-up will certainly shut the door on Component 1, including standard honors, such as MVP or Novice of the Year. Later on, I’ll upload Component 2, with more-invented groups to say around. I’ll include my preseason and also midseason forecasts, in addition to the follower faves, and afterwards my upgraded options, and also a survey.

All the same, please make debates, leave tips, and also or else hash this out in the remarks. On with the program. Go Steelers.

Right here’s the shorthand variation (with my choices). Descriptions and also surveys to comply with.

MVP: Webcam Heyward
Offending POY: Kenny Pickett
Protective POY: Minkah Fitzpatrick
Novice of the Year: George Pickens
Novice of the Year: Mason Cole
Comeback/Improved POY: Chuks Okorafor
Outbreak Gamer: Alex Highsmith
Aide Train of the Year: Rub Meyer
Video Game of the Year: Ravens video game, week 17
Play of the Year: Pickett to Pickens vs Raiders


A Lot Of Belongings Gamer

There is a great deal of argument regarding what MVP implies. When the NFL ballots, it’s usually sort of unsatisfactory: “the quarterback with the most effective numbers.” At the group degree, it tackles a whole lot extra difference. What MVP implies to you will most likely establish your ballot below.

Preseason Victor: T.J. Watt (66%)
My Preseason Ballot: T.J. Watt

Midseason Victor: Minkah Fitzpatrick (72%)
My Midseason Ballot: Minkah Fitzpatrick

Survey

MVP

  • 0%

    Minkah Fitzpatrick

    ( 0 ballots)



0 ballots overall.

Elect Currently.

My Postseason Select: Webcam Heyward

I generally either state group MVP is the most effective general gamer in the video game, or the individual whose visibility you would certainly miss out on one of the most. If we opt for the last, TJ Watt is your MVP, and also remains in opinion for the NFL MVP the last pair years (the last 2 years, the Steelers are 17-4 when TJ gets on the area for 50% of breaks; 1-9-1 without him). Yet I’m mosting likely to err on the side of “Ideal Total Gamer,” both in regards to influence on the area and also management off of it. As well as if that holds true, it’s a two-man fight in between Webcam Heyward and also Minkah Fitzpatrick. Webcam obtains my ballot this year due to the fact that he’s a beast on the area, he never ever sheds his cool (also when the refs appear identified to saddle him with ridiculous, game-altering individual fouls over and also over), and also he’s the most effective leader this group has actually had considering that Hines Ward and also Jerome Bettis. He’s one of the most beneficial gamer.


Preseason Victor: Najee Harris (52%)
My Preseason Option: Najee Harris

Midseason Victor: Rub Freiermuth (47%)
My Midseason Option: Kenny Pickett

Survey

OPOY

  • 0%

    Diontae Johnson

    ( 0 ballots)



0 ballots overall.

Elect Currently.

My Postseason Option: Kenny Pickett

If I read the tea-leaves on BTSC, I’m expecting that Rub Freiermuth will certainly win this survey. Yet Pickett is my OPOY. Kenny is not always the most effective general offending gamer (that’s most likely Najee Harris), neither is he the steadiest (unusually, that’s most likely Mason Cole). Yet he’s creating a credibility as a person that provides when it matters most– back-to-back psychological video game winning TD hands down nationwide television throughout a playoff run will certainly do that. As well as I believe it’s clear that he makes the people around him think. I provided Webcam credit report for being a leader in the MVP group. “Kenny F’ing Pickett” is one as well. Brilliant future in this community …


Preseason Victor: T.J. Watt (74%)
My Preseason Option: T.J. Watt

Midseason Victor: Minkah Fitzpatrick (57%)
My Midseason Option: Minkah Fitzpatrick

Survey

DPOY

  • 0%

    Minkah Fitzpatrick

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Terrell Edmunds

    ( 0 ballots)



0 ballots overall.

Elect Currently.

My Postseason Select: Minkah Fitzpatrick

Minkah had a job year this year, ending up being the very first Steeler to lead the organization in interceptions (connected) considering that Mel Blount. Wow. He’s the most effective security in football, and also may currently be the most effective totally free security in group background (considering that Donnie Covering and also Troy Polamalu were solid safety and securities). If Webcam bordered him for group MVP, Minkah obtains DPOY in a stroll.


Preseason Victor: George Pickens (77%)
My Preseason Option: George Pickens

Midseason Victor: George Pickens (58%)
My Midseason Option: George Pickens

My Postseason Select: George Pickens

I took a little flack for making these choices last time as well– when I provided Pickett as my midseason OPOY yet Pickens as my ROY. My action: I believed Pickens was a much better gamer, yet not as vital to the group. As well as I still do.


Preseason Victor: Myles Jack (47%)
My Preseason Option: Myles Jack

Midseason Victor: Myles Jack (62%)
My Midseason Option: Myles Jack

Survey

Novice of the Year

My Postseason Select: Mason Cole

Changing my elect this round is not a charge of Myles Jack, that I still like as a gamer. Yet Mason Cole has actually silently been an outright rock for this group. Bear in mind exactly how unstable the facility setting has mored than the last pair years– as Maurkice Pouncey matured out and also Kendrick Greene battled? We have not listened to a word regarding Cole most video games. It’s a saying to state that the greatest praise you can pay an offending electrician is to neglect he exists. Yet it’s a great way to determine OL success. As well as it seems like Mason Cole to me. With any luck they secure him down for a couple of years below.


Preseason Victor: Tyson Alualu (47%)
My Preseason Option: The offending line

Midseason Victor: Devin Shrub (52%)
My Midseason Option: The offending line

Survey

Comeback/Improved Gamer

  • 0%

    Pressley Harvin

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Robert Spillane

    ( 0 ballots)



0 ballots overall.

Elect Currently.

My Postseason Select: Chuks Okorafor

Discuss a person that took a great deal of misuse in the past, that we (once more) practically never ever read about this year. Hats off to Chuks. He enhanced a whole lot this year. As well as I believe he made his beginning work.


Preseason Victor: Rub Freiermuth (56%)
My Preseason Option: Alex Highsmith

Midseason Victor: Alex Highsmith (38%)
My Midseason Option: Alex Highsmith

My Postseason Select: Alex Highsmith

Note the Steelers gamers that obtained shafted by Pro Dish citizens. Whoever you provide, you practically need to begin with Highsmith. I anticipated he would certainly have an outbreak period in 2015, yet he never ever rather gone across over. This year, whether T.J. Watt got on the area or otherwise, Highsmith resided in challenger backfields. 14.5 sacks is seriously, specifically on a group that battled to hurry the QB (i.e. where Highsmith can be double-teamed due to the fact that T.J. missed out on half the year). Alex Highsmith is a budding celebrity. As well as this group is mosting likely to be problem when both he and also Watt are healthy and balanced following period.


Preseason Victor: Brian Flores (53%)
My Preseason Option: Brian Flores

Midseason Victor: Rub Meyer (38%); Brian Flores (35%)
My Midseason Option: Rub Meyer

Survey

Aide Train of the Year

My Postseason Select: Rub Meyer

Exists any kind of setting team that had such an extensive development this year than the offending line? It’s stunning just how much we grumbled regarding the OL in the preseason and also very first couple of weeks. This device has actually come to be a group stamina in some way. Credit Score Rub Meyer for that. And after that pay the guy– I do not need to know exactly how this device would certainly look with a sub-par instructor.


Preseason Victor: Wk 14, vs Ravens (46%)
My Preseason Option: Wk 1, at Bengals, period opener

Midseason Victor: Wk 16, vs Raiders, Spotless Function Video Game (40%)
My Midseason Option: Wk 16, vs Raiders, Spotless Function Video Game

Survey

Video Game of the Year

  • 0%

    Wk 1, vs Cincinnati (23-20) – Steelers misuse Joe Burrow in opening up week distress.

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Wk 6, vs Tampa Florida Bay (20-18) – Steelers damage shedding touch by discouraging Tom Brady.

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Wk 12, vs Indianapolis (24-17) – Back-up running backs subdue the Colts.

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Wk 16, vs Las Las Vega (13-10) – Impressive upright 50th Wedding anniversary of the Spotless Function.

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Wk 17, vs Baltimore (16-13) – Kenny Pickett makes background with 2nd straight last min video game winning TD pass.

    ( 0 ballots)



0 ballots overall.

Elect Currently.

My Postseason Select: Wk 17, at Ravens

It boiled down to the Raiders or Ravens for me. As well as I presume it will certainly boil down to those 2 for a lot of you also. Both exceptional video games. Both with magnificent coatings. Both with nationwide television target markets. The Raiders video game had background and also disaster (Franco’s fatality) elevating the gravity; the Ravens tilt had the strength that competition constantly brings, together with all of a sudden genuine playoff effects.

I chose the Ravens video game due to the fact that, truthfully, I appreciated it extra– I believed extra people placed on remarkable provings (Najee’s very first 100 lawn video game of the year; Pickens and also Sims with emphasize reel captures; Minkah with his sixth INT; TJ with a big-game sack; Jaylen Warren’s 30 lawn run). Plus it provides me a lot satisfaction to see John Harbaugh shed. To ensure that’s my video game. Yet if you chose the Spotless Function video game, you have actually additionally obtained my true blessing. It’s one of the most interesting two-game stretch of football I have actually seen from this group in most likely 7 or 8 years.


No Preseason Select
No Midseason Select

Survey

Play of the Year














  • 0%

    Minkah Fitzpatrick’s Pick-6 on Joe Burrow’s very first pass of the period (Wk 1, vs Bengals)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Minkah obstructs rub to send out opener to overtime (Wk 1, vs Bengals)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    George Pickens’ insane sideline grab (Wk 3, vs Browns)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Kenny Pickett’s 2 TDs trigger the violation in his very first video game activity (Wk 4, vs Jets)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Kenny Pickett defends himself after Shaq Lawson strikes him reduced (Wk 5, vs Costs)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    T.J. Watt grabs his secondly interception of Joe Burrow in one period, both at the line (Wk 11, vs Bengals)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Benny Snell’s fourth quarter TD secures the video game as Steelers backup RBs compete 100+ over the Colts (Wk 12, vs Colts)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Connor Heyward’s over-the-shoulder TD versus his late daddy Ironhead’s previous group (Wk 13, vs Falcons)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Pickett to Pickens wins the Spotless Function wedding anniversary video game (Wk 16, vs Raiders)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Jaylen Warren’s 30 lawn first quarter run collections the tone for the Steelers 198 lawn hurrying day (Wk 17, vs Ravens)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Pickett tosses Najee Harris open up versus Roquan Smith, for the 2nd last min video game victor in 2 weeks (Wk 17, vs Ravens)

    ( 0 ballots)

  • 0%

    Webcam Heyward finishes the period by sacking Deshaun Watson on fourth and also 10 (Wk 18, vs Browns)

    ( 0 ballots)



0 ballots overall.

Elect Currently.

My Postseason Select: Pickett to Pickens to defeat the Raiders half a century (and also eventually) after Franco went across the objective line.

There are a great deal of these. All the best selecting. I provided any kind of play that stood apart in my memory (and also I attempted to spread out the playmakers around). Yet I truly believe this boils down to 2 plays. It’s either the video game victor to Pickens at the end of the Spotless Function video game on nationwide television, with Franco’s fatality dangling over the area. Or Najee Harris’s video game victor the adhering to week. The last drive versus Baltimore was most likely extra remarkable, especially on Kenny Pickett’s component. Yet the side-plots of the Spotless Function video game make it extra remarkable, to me.

I’ll state, also, the Spotless Function wedding anniversary rating may have been the most beautiful play of every one of these. Every replay I see of it makes me consider this play– the video game victor from Super Dish XXIII. As well as truthfully, though that a person remained in the Super Dish, I would certainly say that the stress was equally as high for the Steelers, provided the weight of background, the disaster airborne, the large target market, the playoff effects, and also simply exactly how young the Steelers violation is. That they provided so perfectly is borderline thrilling.

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