2019 Week 2 Dropped Passes Report

A week after the Pittsburgh Steelers dropped five passes in the season opener against the New England Patriots, the drop report is a little lighter this Saturday, though not as much as you would like. I’m going to look at four plays here, three of which I’ve marked as drops, though one comes with an asterisk.

The first here probably needs some context, too. That’s Johnny Holton there. He had one target in the game, and it was a long one. This ball was overthrown. While the slow-motion, zoomed-in replay shows that the football went through his hands—his wrists, even—it’s a stretch to call this a drop because of the degree of difficulty. Pro Football Focus marked it as a drop—but they also…