Mike Tomlin announced on Tuesday that Kaleb Johnson is getting benched from his kick return duties in the short term after his costly Week 2 gaffe that arguably tossed the game away to the Seattle Seahawks. It’s an understandable course of action, but is it the right call?
“He can’t feel good about himself today. I can tell you that,” Mark Kaboly said via 93.7 The Fan’s Pomp and Joe Show. “After hearing what Tomlin said yesterday, after what happened on Sunday, he’s probably questioning everything he does right now.”
Part of the reason they likely had him on the kick return unit in the first place was a lower-risk option to get him used to the speed of the game in an effort to ramp him up towards a bigger role on offense.