Connor Heyward has run the Steelers’ Tush Push—or the Spartan—10 times this season, and they have been successful on 8 of them. That includes 8 out of 9 sequences, because they ran it back-to-back times once. While many around the NFL don’t care for the play, many others have adopted some variation of it.
Not everybody runs it equally well, though. The Steelers believe Connor Heyward is a big part of the reason their Tush Push variation is successful. While OC Arthur Smith said they tried out several players for the “quarterback” role, he has a different story.