I was reading Bill Barnwell’s list ranking the offensive skill position players that every team has in the NFL yesterday, and one thing that the veteran analyst noted happened to jump out at me. He wrote of the Pittsburgh Steelers, behind 2018 Pro Bowlers James Conner and JuJu Smith-Schuster, “no team in the league has a bigger drop-off from the top two to the rest of their weapons”.
I scoffed a bit at first, but as I thought more about it—perhaps he’s not wrong. And that’s a bit stunning given that the two aforementioned players only really came into their own in 2018.