Much has been made of Arthur Smith’s offense and its preference to feature the tight end. On Friday during the Steelers media availability scrum, TE Darnell Washington was asked if Smith’s offense is a tight end’s dream so far in the season.
“I’d like to say, yeah.” Washington said with a smile via the team website. “At least compared to last year. No shade there. But I’m just saying with Arthur’s Smith offense, him coming from ATL and things like that, for sure. Been tight end friendly for a while. He’s a tight end guy. At one point he did Coach tight ends.