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Washington’s Year-Two Emergence Is More Meaningful Than Several Previous Steelers WRs

Throughout all my years on this earth, I have discovered three basic guarantees that come with life. Death, taxes and the Pittsburgh Steelers developing wide receivers at ease. Whether it be JuJu Smith-Schuster, Emmanuel Sanders, Mike Wallace, Santonio Holmes or Antonio Brown, the Steelers have graduated many receivers from raw prospect class into legitimate NFL talent.

This season, another wide receiver has graduated from raw rookie into talented sophomore as James Washington has been playing lights out football over the last month. Since week nine, the second-year wide receiver has put up 417 receiving yards and three touchdowns as he has emerged as a trusted playmaker after the injury to Smith-Schuster.