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Brooke PryorNov 5, 2025, 05:34 AM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Brooke Pryor is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN who has covered the Pittsburgh Steelers since 2019. She previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and the University of Oklahoma for The Oklahoman.<\/p>\n PITTSBURGH — Versatile defensive back Jalen Ramsey<\/a> will continue to play safety for at least another week, coach Mike Tomlin said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n With injuries and an illness plaguing the Steelers’ safety group, Tomlin shifted Ramsey to safety against the Colts, and with the availability of several players still in question, Ramsey will remain there against the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Jalen will continue to work exclusively at safety,” Tomlin said. “We value his play, his positional flexibility. It’s an asset to us. It gives a lot of people things to work on, but certainly under the circumstances that we’re under right now, we deemed that appropriate as we did last week in terms of nailing him down there.”<\/p>\n He spent time at safety prior to the Colts game, but that win was the first time Ramsey played exclusively at that position. The Steelers entered that matchup down their top three safeties: DeShon Elliott<\/a> (knee, IR), Chuck Clark<\/a> (illness) and Jabrill Peppers<\/a> (quad). Because they had more depth at cornerback, Tomlin shifted Ramsey to safety, pairing him with newly acquired safety Kyle Dugger<\/a>. As a result, Brandin Echols<\/a> played more snaps at nickel, and James Pierre<\/a> played some snaps outside opposite either Joey Porter Jr<\/a>. or Darius Slay<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Steelers acquired Ramsey in a blockbuster trade from the Miami Dolphins<\/a> earlier this year in large part because of his flexibility. Though he spent most of his career at outside corner, the Steelers always envisioned being able to use him all over the defensive backfield.<\/p>\n “It’s just his relationship with the game,” Tomlin said, explaining what makes Ramsey a good safety. “… He’s got really good instincts, he’s got really good passion for the game. He studies the game, and I think those are some things that really enable him to play back there and that’s such a major component of that position.”<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks 1 Related<\/p>\n Ramsey recorded five solo tackles and played 98.6 percent of defensive snaps Sunday. Dugger, meanwhile, played just one fewer snap than Ramsey in his first game with the Steelers. He recorded one solo tackle and three combined tackles just three days after his first practice with the team. Afterward, Tomlin gave him a game ball.<\/p>\n Tomlin was coy when asked if he thought the Steelers needed to add additional safeties to help a thin position or if Ramsey’s position flexibility diminished that need.<\/p>\n “It really depends on player availability,” he said. “It’s certainly an asset of [Ramsey’s] . It is something that he’s open to doing. It’s something that he’s capable of, but as I mentioned when I was talking about Derwin James, those things don’t happen in a vacuum. They involve others and others movement as well, and so we’ll make those decisions based on what’s available to us.”<\/p>\nWith injuries and an illness plaguing the Steelers’ safety group, coach Mike Tomlin shifted Ramsey to safety against the Colts, and will keep him there vs. the Chargers.\u00a0Kevin Sabitus\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
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