Now that the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2022 season is over, the team finishing above .500 but failing to make the postseason, we turn our attention to the offseason and everything that means. One thing that it means is that some stock evaluations are going to start taking on broader contexts, reflecting on a player’s development, either positively or negatively, over the course of the season. Other evaluations will reflect only one immediate event or trend. The nature of the evaluation, whether short-term or long-term, will be noted in the reasoning section below.
Player: TE Connor Heyward
Stock Value: Up
Reasoning: Steelers players and coaches continue to talk up second-year tight end Connor Heyward from a playmaking perspective, characterizing him as a mismatch option for the offense and seeming to imply an active approach to utilizing him more.