Unless you live under a rock, you know that the Pittsburgh Steelers need to put up more points on the scoreboard in 2025. One important element of this that I want to look at is red zone receiving production.
The goal of the article is to look at current Steelers receivers who had a minimum of five red zone targets last season and see what it could mean for 2025.
Here are routes run and targets in the red zone in 2024:
Clearly, the most positive results and only above-the-mean players were at tight end. Jonnu Smith saw the most volume as a Dolphin in 2024, with 64 red zone routes run (T-30th) and 18 targets (T-19th) out of 177 qualifiers (min.