It’s safe to say the crop of Pittsburgh Steeler’s second-year players haven’t made the sophomore jump the team hoped or expected. Chase Claypool has been a disappointment in year two, struggling to find consistency. Alex Highsmith had an incredible training camp and hasn’t played poorly but has just three sacks on the year, concentrated to a pair of games. Kevin Dotson is on IR with an ankle sprain and fourth round pick Anthony McFarland has done very little his second year.
Battling back from an MCL tear that shelved him on IR for the first six weeks of the season, he’s struggled to get a hat on gameday.