A lot can change over the last 15 weeks of the NFL season, but the experts seem to have been pretty far off base with the projections for the AFC North. If you aren’t familiar with all the expert projections on how that division would shape up, let me sum it up for you.
The top three finishers in the division seemed pretty unanimous: the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals, in whichever order you prefer. Some predicted the Browns to surprise everybody and take the division while most predicted the Bengals or Ravens to take home the crown. But nobody was predicting the Russell Wilson or Justin Fields-led Steelers to make any noise.
But, after three weeks of football, it’s the Pittsburgh Steelers that stand atop the AFC North, to the surprise of everybody except those in the Steel City…