If it feels frustrating to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers throw short of the sticks on third down, your eyes don’t deceive you. It’s a feature, not a bug, of the team’s passing game. A new graph shows the high frequency in which Pittsburgh aims short of the marker.
Since Week 11, Pittsburgh has the fourth-highest rate of doing so at 51.1 percent of the time. Only the Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, and Detroit Lions have higher rates.
How often are #NFL offenses throwing short of the sticks on third down since Week 11?