Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator saved perhaps one of his best play-calls of the season for the last play of Sunday’s game: a jet sweep to rookie tight end Connor Heyward. It’s a play they had never shown before on tape—a play Heyward never ran in college even, though he was a running back.
You don’t necessarily want to trust rookies in critical situations, but there has been a willingness. The Steelers closed out the first game of the 2020 season with a run by then-rookie wide receiver Chase Claypool as well.
They were confident in Heyward, however, including in his understanding of the game and of situational football.