Trystan Colon-Ben Cleveland Combo Worked Well
Sunday’s game was just the second over the past eight seasons that Kevin Zeitler missed, so you know it took a lot to sideline the burly right guard.
Zeitler, who only got in one limited practice last Friday, worked out before the game and was in too much pain to play.
“It’s not a major injury thing. It’s just a flare up in his knee, and it was just sore,” Harbaugh said. “He tried like the best he could to get to the game; it just didn’t feel good enough. Sometimes it just isn’t right to actually perform the way you need to perform.”
The Ravens could have turned to veteran Patrick Mekari, Harbaugh said, but he was still coming back from his toe injury and had mostly been playing tackle. Thus, Baltimore turned to Trystan Colon, who had previously played center, and Ben Cleveland.
Colon, who missed two days of practice last week due to a personal matter, played 77% of the snaps compared to 23% for Cleveland. Both received good Pro Football Focus grades with Colon at 72.5 and Cleveland at 61.1.
“We felt like those were the two best guys,” Harbaugh said. “As far as rotating them, they both deserved it. I think they both validated the decision, right? They both played well, and you give the opponent a little change up, maybe they can’t get a beat on either guy, and it worked out well for us.”
Each had two key blocks on the Ravens’ biggest runs of the game, as Cleveland worked in tandem with Tyler Linderbaum on J.K. Dobbins’ 44-yard run and Colon pancaked Steelers defensive lineman Montravius Adams on Gus Edwards’ game-sealing 6-yard run.
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