As our Tom Mead proved in an offseason study, the Pittsburgh Steelers decreased their amount of pre-snap motion last season. There’s likely several reasons for that but Chase Claypool thinks defenses were finally catching up to what Pittsburgh was doing.
Speaking with the media after Saturday’s practice, Claypool explained why some of the shifts and motions went away as the season went along.
“I think teams definitely caught onto it,” Claypool said via a video off the Steelers’ website. “So I think we’re trying to mix things up a little bit. And make a couple of things look the same with different plays going on.