It’s easy to praise a rookie while he’s doing well, but until he starts struggling, that seems to be all second-round tight end Pat Freiermuth is getting from his Pittsburgh Steelers teammates, now eight games into his career. While he is coming along as a blocker, he has been making an impact as a reliable pass-catcher, topped off by a two-touchdown showing on Monday night.
“It’s kind of one of those ones where they had a DB on him and so you knew, one, you had the matchup size-wise. And then the second thing was the defender had his back to me”, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said of his second touchdown pass to Freiermuth, speaking to reporters yesterday.