It is fairly common knowledge that when it comes to knowing the intimate details of each team, national sports writers tend to be lacking in accuracy. Some of them might be pretty good at what they do in terms of having a general overview of the game and the landscape of the league as a whole, but ask them to dissect the minutiae of, for example, a team’s front office tendencies, and they’re simply not going to have the familiarity with the subject.
Frankly, that’s the first thing that came to mind when I came across an article from former NFL quarterback-turned-journalist David Carr for the league’s website, in which he seeks to identify the pending offensive free agent from each AFC playoff team that they can’t afford to lose—and he picked left tackle Alejandro Villanueva for the Pittsburgh Steelers:
Surprised James Conner or JuJu Smith-Schuster aren’t in this space?