By the ninth game of the 2018 regular season, every single skill position player on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 53-man roster has now caught at least one pass from quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. That list of players spans three running backs, six wide receivers, three tight ends, and a fullback, for a total of 13 players.
The 15-year veteran has improved his ball distribution during the second quarter of the season after fixating too much and too often on either Antonio Brown or JuJu Smith-Schuster. Neither of them have put up weekly eye-popping numbers as a result, but in exchange we have gotten meaningful contributions from the likes of Ryan Switzer, Xavier Grimble, and even Jaylen Samuels and Roosevelt Nix.