Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger targeted a season-high nine different players during Monday’s game against the Washington Football team, which included all five of their wide receivers, two different running backs, tight end Eric Ebron, and…backup tackle Jerald Hawkins. Roethlisberger looked the big man’s way on 3rd and goal late in the first half. It did not work out as well as Chris Boswell’s pass to Alejandro Villanueva a couple years ago, their last big man touchdown.
Perhaps inspired by Sunday’s big man touchdown by the Cleveland Browns, this was the first time in Roethlisberger’s entire career that he has ever attempted a pass to an offensive lineman—and it went to Jerald Hawkins for an incompletion.