All throughout the course of the offseason, the Pittsburgh Steelers made it clear that the wide receiver end-arounds and reverses were going to be a part of their offense, something that they would run a couple of times a game. Of course, this was not unique to 2016, but they do seem to be doing it more, and are having to find more ways to do it without Martavis Bryant.
While they had been having moderate success using these elongated runs, it had often seemed as though they were coming close from breaking one, but were just missing one last piece or two to really bust the play open.