Alex Highsmith
LB
#56
Experience: 7 years
Height: 6-4
Age: 29
Weight: 242 lbs
College: Charlotte
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Biography
PRO CAREER
- Has played in 90 games (79 starts) in his six-year NFL career (Pittsburgh 2020-25)
- Has registered 331 tackles (208 solo), 64 tackles for loss, 45.0 sacks, 91 quarterback hits, three interceptions, 10 passes defensed, 10 forced fumbles and one interception return for TD
- Has recorded six tackles (four solo) on special teams
- His 14.5 sacks in 2022 are tied for the sixth-most in single-season franchise history
- Has registered at least two QB hits and two TFL in 13 career games, which is tied for the seventh-most in the NFL since the start of the 2021 season
- His nine forced fumbles are tied for the eighth-most in the NFL since the start of the 2022 season
- One of just six players in the League with at least 7.0 sacks and two interceptions in a season since entering the NFL in 2020
- His eight strip sacks are tied for the fifth-most in the NFL since the start of the 2022 season
- His interception return for TD in Week 2 of 2023 vs. Cleveland came nine seconds into the game, which was the fastest TD to open a game for the Steelers since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger
- First Steelers player to record an interception on the first play from scrimmage in a game since William Gay in 2014
- In Pittsburgh's victory over Cleveland in Week 2 of 2023, Highsmith and T.J. Watt both recorded a sack and defensive TD -- becoming the first pair of teammates to each post a sack and TD in the same game since 1982, when the sack became an official statistic
- Only player in the NFL in 2023 with at least 7.0 sacks and two interceptions
- Has recorded nine multi-sack games in his career
- Made NFL debut in Week 1 of 2020 (at N.Y. Giants)
- Made NFL starting debut in Week 13 of 2020 (vs. Washington)