The Pittsburgh Steelers seemed to lack explosive playmaking throughout the 2020 season.
A good place to begin exploring this is by looking at running and/or wide receiver screen passes. In general, these passes end up being charted as negative air yardage. In this case, playmaking can be evaluated by calculating the overall net yardage gained after the receiver receives the negative air yardage pass.
The more net yardage gained – calculated from the line of scrimmage due to the limitations of the data – means more playmaking ability. This is, of course, a slight overgeneralization. The receiver catching the ball on these screen passes is still at the mercy of proper blocking in front of him which is why doing this as an individual statistic is not as telling as doing it as a team statistic.