The Pittsburgh Steelers’ rookies passed their first AFC North test with a win over the Cleveland Browns and then turned around and failed test No. 2 just a few days later on the road against the Cincinnati Bengals. As always, we will go through each rookie’s snap counts, Pro Football Focus grades, and samples of their film before assigning them a grade for this week’s rookie report card.
Just a note this week that RB Kaleb Johnson did not log a single snap on offense or special teams in Cincinnati and thus is left off this report. Globally, it looks like Mike Tomlin opted to play rookies less than normal on the short week in back-to-back divisional tilts.