{"id":679486,"date":"2026-06-02T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679486\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:37:15","slug":"its-huge-patrick-queen-loved-one-thing-elandon-roberts-told-him-about-new-steelers-dc-patrick-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679486\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s Huge’: Patrick Queen Loved One Thing Elandon Roberts Told Him About New Steelers DC Patrick Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Queen played with Elandon Roberts before, so he wanted the intel on new Steelers DC Patrick Graham. He liked what he heard. Roberts signed with the Las Vegas Raiders last year in free agency and played under Graham there. With Mike Tomlin retiring, Mike McCarthy hired Graham as their new coordinator.<\/p>\n

One of the chief concerns Queen has had about the Steelers\u2019 defense has been communication<\/a>, specifically in their many lapses. Over the past couple of years, that has been an area in which they have struggled. As the quarterback of the defense, he wants a leader who will put the emphasis on that. And he\u2019s happy to report that\u2019s exactly what they now have in Patrick Graham.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s huge. I talked to E-Rob [Elandon Roberts] about him, because E-Rob was with him in [Las] Vegas. He was like, \u2018That\u2019s gonna be the bare minimum. You\u2019ve got to communicate\u2019\u201d, Queen said of Graham, via the Steelers\u2019 website<\/a>. \u201cI just love that, because for me personally, if everybody communicates, everybody knows what they\u2019re supposed to do, and if we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re supposed to do, somebody\u2019s gonna figure it out through that communication\u201d.<\/p>\n

Graham knew when he took the Steelers\u2019 coordinator job that communication was an area of concern, not that he wanted to talk about last year\u2019s problems<\/a>. In Patrick Queen, he has a willing communicator. And also one who is growing into that role, now in his third season with the green dot. Now ostensibly in his prime, he understands better than ever how important this aspect is.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we\u2019re all on the same page, everybody can fly around, get 11 hats to the ball\u201d, Queen said. \u201cAnd you could be that Steel Curtain type of defense. Obviously, like PG [Patrick Graham] said, you\u2019ve got to earn that name. We\u2019ve just got to go out there and we\u2019ve got to do it. We\u2019ve got to prove it every single down\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Steelers continue to believe they have the talent to field an elite defense. Both Patrick Graham and Patrick Queen have essentially communicated that idea. If communication is the lone bugaboo holding them back, it should certainly be their priority.<\/p>\n

In recent years, the Steelers have devoted more resources to the offense, but the defense has received plenty of attention, too. They won\u2019t see many contributions from the rookie class, but free agency is another story. The Steelers added two veteran defensive backs in free agency who are great communicators: Jamel Dean and Jaquan Brisker. In Brisker\u2019s case, he has a relationship with Joey Porter Jr. that goes back to college. And those sorts of relationships can help Patrick Queen as the Steelers build chains of communication on defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Queen played with Elandon Roberts before, so he wanted the intel on new Steelers DC Patrick Graham.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[269507,349,206176,89362,1321,99,3795],"class_list":["post-679486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-elandon-roberts","tag-nfl","tag-patrick-graham","tag-patrick-queen","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}