Blink and you would’ve missed tight ends Pat Freiermuth and Jonnu Smith playing in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Week 4 game against the Minnesota Vikings. Playing scant snaps and hardly seeing the football, OC Arthur Smith says that won’t be the plan every week. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Smith said their involvement will ebb and flow.
“Sometimes game-to-game that can take away,” Smith said of shifting tight end usage via a team-provided transcript. “Jonnu and Pat’s snaps were down, they are valuable members. It’s just the way the game went, it worked. But it doesn’t mean it’s going to work this week.