Few football situations require avoiding the end zone intentionally, but Tee Higgins found one Sunday. His decision to stop short helped the Cincinnati Bengals close out their win over the Pittsburgh Steelers — something Ben Roethlisberger wishes Pat Freiermuth had considered just minutes earlier.
“I will say this, when he was getting ready to score as he was at like the 15-yard line, I was like, ‘Go down, go down, go down'” Roethlisberger said via his Footbahlin podcast. “Because you don’t wanna score too fast. Because the defense couldn’t stop the Bengals.”
Hindsight is always 20/20, but it’s fair to ask whether Freiermuth should’ve done what Roethlisberger suggested.