After the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Week 4 loss to the Indianapolis Colts, it’s easy to point fingers at individual players or entire sides of the ball, but running back Najee Harris is having none of that.
Sure, we can point to the lost fumbles by quarterback Justin Fields and wide receiver George Pickens as major issues, and the lackluster showing by the defense, which had its worst performance of the 2024 campaign by a mile.
But Harris is sick of the finger pointing and made it quite clear that losses are on the entire team, not just a player or one side of the ball, which once again shows the great leadership Harris has displayed on during his career.
“I think we all showed ourselves,” he said, according to Brian Batko of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “I think we as a team showed what we can do. Not one player. Y’all always keep putting on one person. It’s the whole team. All 11 of us. Stop making it one player. Y’all keep saying Justin as if he’s the one throwing, catching and running like, come on bro. It’s all of us. So what do we do? What did we see? I saw us all fight us as a team.”
Harris is correct when he says the Steelers showed fight, which was the silver lining of a tough Week 4 loss.
It would have been easy for a 3-0 team to pack it in after an ugly first half that saw Pittsburgh fall behind 17-0, but the Steelers managed to climb their way back into the game and had a legit chance to tie it or win in the closing minutes, despite everything that went wrong.
The Steelers will look to get back on track when they host the Dallas Cowboys in Week 5 on Sunday.
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