The Pittsburgh Steelers pulled off a huge trade last season that brought safety Minkah Fitzpatrick to the team. His addition turned a good Steelers defense into an elite one. Our friends over at Touchdown Wire ranked the 11 best safeties in the NFL and Fitzpatrick made the cut. Here’s what they had to say about him.
Now we are getting into even tougher territory to tread, with the players having such talent at this point in the list. If someone wanted to include Minkah Fitzpatrick as their top safety in the game, I could see the argument. Fitzpatrick is part of the next generation of safeties, players that can align all over the field and play three different roles on three consecutive downs.
Fitzpatrick was named an All-Pro in his second season in the league in 2019. You can pour all the accolades on you want on edge rusher T.J. Watt and he deserves them all. But I’m not sure there was a defensive player in the entire NFL who did more to improve a defense than Fitzpatrick did for Pittsburgh after coming over from the Miami Dolphins.
