On Monday, the Pittsburgh Steelers players voted for their captains for the 2024 NFL season. Having two players for defense as well as one each for offense and special teams, the Steelers captains for the 2024 season are Cam Heyward, T.J. Watt, Russell Wilson, and Miles Killebrew.

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The 2024 season will become the tenth-straight year for Cam Heyward as a captain. After being the only defensive captain in 2021, Heyward was joined once again by T.J. Watt for the last two seasons after both being captains in 2020. This is now the third year in a row the pair is representing the Steelers defense and the fourth time overall for Watt.

On offense, quarterback Russell Wilson has been named captain in his first season in Pittsburgh. Last year Kenny Pickett has the lone offensive captain while the year before saw Mitch Trubisky holding the captain’s role along with Najee Harris. This will be Wilson’s twelth-straight season as a captain as he held the job the last two years in Denver and the previous nine in Seattle.

When it comes to special teams, Miles Killebrew receives the honor for a third season after joining the Steelers in 2021. Not having a special teams captain for the Steelers in 2017, a different player had been selected each season since with Chris Boswell in 2018, Roosevelt Nix in 2019, Jordan Dangerfield in 2020, and Derek Watt in 2021. This is the first time a player has been named special teams captain in three consecutive years for the Steelers since Robert Golden in 2014 through 2016.

The Steelers captains for the 2024 season see three of the four players who were also captains in 2023 with the difference being Russell Wilson for Kenny Pickett. In 2022 the Steelers had five captains as the had two for each side of the ball in Heyward and Watt along with two offensive captains in Mitch Trubisky and Najee Harris, and in 2021 the Steelers only had three captains as they had one for offense, defense, and special teams. Ben Roethlisberger was the offensive captain for the 13th time in his final season along with Cam Heyward on the defense and Derek Watt for special teams. During the 2020 season, the Steelers had five captains as they had two players each on offense and defense. Maurkice Pouncey served as an offensive captain in 2020 which was his third consecutive season and fourth overall for the Steelers. The other player who was a defensive captain in 2020 was linebacker T.J. Watt.

Stay tuned to Steel Curtain Network’s continued coverage as the Pittsburgh Steelers prepare for Week 1 of the 2024 NFL regular season against the Falcons at 1 PM this Sunday in Atlanta.