During the 2024 season, it was apparent that the Pittsburgh Steelers needed to add more receiving help around George Pickens. In an effort to do so, they traded a fifth-round pick to the New York Jets in exchange for Mike Williams. Aside from a game-winning touchdown reception just after being acquired, Williams didn’t make much of an impact. According to Steelers insider Brian Batko, he would have liked to be more of a focal point in the offense.
“I talked to Mike Williams several times after he came over from the Jets, and I never got an inkling that he wasn’t healthy,” Batko wrote in his weekly chat with the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette.