Pittsburgh Steelers 2022 Season Betting Guide

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Is there a more stable franchise in the NFL than the Pittsburgh Steelers? They have had a record 18 consecutive non-losing seasons, with the last losing campaign coming in 2003. Will that continue this year without Ben Roethlisberger? Let’s break it down. Here are your favorite bets in the NFL.

Odds to win Super Bowl: +8000
Odds to win AFC: +5000
Odds to win AFC North: +800
Over/under win total: 7.5

Pittsburgh Steelers 2022 Season Betting Guide

The Steelers didn’t know their 2021 playoff fate until their Week 17 game in Baltimore. Pittsburgh won that 16-13 in overtime on a Chris Boswell made a 36-yard field goal with 1:56 remaining but then the Steelers still had to wait and see what happened in the late game in Week 17 between the Chargers and Raiders. Had the Chargers won or it been a tie, Pittsburgh would have missed out but Las Vegas kicked a field goal at the end of overtime to win 35-32.

Ben Roethlisberger’s final NFL game would be an ugly 42-21 loss at Kansas City in the Wild-Card Round. The 39-year-old quarterback was 29 of 44 for 215 yards with two meaningless TD passes late in the game, providing the coda to a career that included six Pro Bowl trips and two Super Bowl wins.

The likely Week 1 starter at QB for the Steelers this year will be Mitchell Trubisky. He brings with him plenty of experience, starting 50 of the 57 games he has played in during his five-year career. Trubisky spent the first four seasons of his career with the Chicago Bears, who selected him in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft, the second player taken overall. He played for the Buffalo Bills in 2021, where he backed-up Josh Allen, playing in only six games with eight pass attempts. In five seasons he has completed 1,016 of 1,585 passes for 10,652 yards and 64 touchdowns, with 38 interceptions.

There could be a camp battle with Mason Rudolph, who has started 10 of the 17 games he played in his three seasons with the Steelers, and rookie first-round pick Kenny Pickett out of the University of Pittsburgh. Trubisky reportedly has “a significant head start,” and the competition between him, Rudolph and Pickett “will be more for show” than substance. Pickett certainly is the future but he worked exclusively with the third-string offense in OTAs and minicamp.

Running back Najee Harris had a terrific rookie season and could be used even more this year. The Steelers wasted little time getting Harris acclimated to the NFL, handing him the ball nearly 400 times (307 rushes, 74 catches) despite a suspect offensive line and an aging Roethlisberger under center. Harris responded with a Pro Bowl performance, rushing for 1,200 yards and scoring 10 total touchdowns with zero rushing fumbles.

The defense should remain Top 10 in the league behind linebacker TJ Watt, the 2021 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Watt had an epic 2021 season, tying Hall of Famer Michael Strahan’s NFL single-season record with 22.5 sacks, leading the NFL in sacks for the second-straight year. Watt became one of only two players in NFL history to have 20 plus sacks in 14 or fewer games since sacks became an official statistic in 1982. The only other one to do it was the legendary Reggie White, who had 21 sacks in 12 games in 1987 in a strike-shortened season.

Watt joined an exclusive group of Steelers who won the award, including Joe Greene (1972, 1974), Mel Blount (1975), Jack Lambert (1976), Rod Woodson (1993), James Harrison (2008) and Troy Polamalu (2010), five of the six in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Pittsburgh boosted the defense by signing former Bengals lineman Larry Ogunjobi (foot) to a one-year deal. Ogunjobi registered a career-high seven sacks last season with Cincinnati and was set to join Chicago on a three-year, $40.5 million deal until a failed physical nullified the deal.

The club also signed former Jaguars linebacker Myles Jack to a two-year deal. Jack led the Jaguars with 108 combined tackles in 2021, and it was his third season with at least 107 combined tackles in the last four years. The former second-round pick out of UCLA has started in 82 of 88 games played in six seasons, and has made 513 combined tackles, 15 passes defensed and three interceptions.

Pittsburgh opens the season at reigning AFC champion Cincinnati and is a 6.5-point favorite. Don’t see the Steelers winning that one.