Arthur Smith is a run-centric offensive coordinator, or so his reputation informs us. It helps that he usually has a top-10, if not top-five run game every year, and the Pittsburgh Steelers hope he can install one here. But that reputation does a disservice to the completeness with which he views his offense, including working with wide receivers.
“He’s very involved with us. He runs our routes-on-air period”, WR Calvin Austin III said of Smith yesterday, via the team’s website. “He knows what he wants to see from us, running off the ball. He always is around, talking to us.