Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Matt Canada was a guest on Cameron Heyward’s Not Just Football podcast, and Heyward drew up a play for Canada that involved his brother Connor throwing him a touchdown pass.
“We do a jet sweep with Connor, give him the ball, and then he throws it to me in the end zone. Heyward to Heyward,” Cameron said. “I’ll talk to Mike T and see how it goes.”
While he’s obviously joking, it wouldn’t be completely unreasonable for Heyward to be used as a goal-line target. At 6-foot-5, 295 pounds he would be a tough guy to cover in the red zone, and he also wouldn’t be the first NFL defender to be used as a red zone target.