There was so much optimism heading into this season about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ wide receivers, with even players like Cobi Hamilton and Demarcus Ayers being talked up. The former is on a 53-man roster, while the latter has found his way to another practice squad, but there is a reason that they are not on this roster this year.
And Sunday’s game showed that even those who made it over them are far from sure things. Well, everybody not named Antonio Brown. And rookie JuJu Smith-Schuster also certainly looks as though he has some potential, with five touchdown receptions in the nine games in which he has been targeted at least once.