PITTSBURGH — The list of rookie quarterbacks the Pittsburgh Steelers have provided lesson after lesson to over the past 12 years is long if not always distinguished.

For every Eli Manning, Joe Flacco and Andy Dalton that Pittsburgh’s defense has taken to task since the start of the 2004 season there’s a Charlie Frye, John Beck and E.J. Manuel.

Only time will tell which group Philadelphia’s Carson Wentz fits into. At the moment, the Steelers (2-0) don’t particularly care.

While they’ve been impressed as anyone by Wentz’s preternatural calm while getting the Philadelphia Eagles off to a 2-0 start, they’re ready to provide their own unique test on Sunday.

“He’s definitely made plays in this league so far, but it’s up to us to make sure that stops this week,” Pittsburgh linebacker Arthur Moats said.

That’s typically what tends to happen when rookies find the Steelers on the other side of the line of scrimmage.

Pittsburgh is 19-2 against first-year quarterbacks over the past dozen seasons, holding opposing offenses to 15.75 points and forcing double the amount of interceptions (25) as passing touchdowns allowed (12).

Moats stressed “the secret is, there is no secret.” Maybe, but the defense Wentz will get an extended look at this weekend is unlike the ones faced by his predecessors.

The Steelers are evolving in defensive coordinator Keith Butler second’s season on the job after replacing mentor Dick LeBeau.

Last fall Butler tinkered with exotic blitz packages designed to ramp up the pressure and take some of the heat off a shaky secondary.

Through the first two weeks of 2016 he’s taken a decidedly less risky approach, often dropping Pittsburgh’s outside linebackers into pass coverage instead of sending them crashing helter-skelter into the pocket like a mob of “Pokemon Go” players.

Through eight quarters, the Steelers have all of one sack. They also have zero losses. Seems like a pretty fair equation to Butler.

“We haven’t done (blitzed) like we’ve done it in the past because we’ve got a pretty good offense too,” he said.

“We’d like to have the (sack) numbers that the hierarchy in the defense in the league has, but it’s worth more to me to win ballgames.”

It’s telling that two of the three turnovers the Steelers have created have come on plays 38-year-old linebacker James Harrison found himself well downfield trying to cover players at least a decade his junior.

In the opener against Washington it was a diving interception in the end zone to seal a blowout.

Against Cincinnati it was a textbook tackle.