If you watched the Pittsburgh Steelers’ preseason opener with zero other context of the roster ahead of time, you would’ve assumed rookie John Rhys Plumlee was a wide receiver. Or maybe a running back. Or a converted H-back trying to make it at a new position.
Plumlee is a quarterback. At least on the depth chart. Against the Houston Texans, he did everything else.
The answer to a trivia question 10 years from now will be Plumlee. The question – who was the first Pittsburgh Steeler to return a kick under the NFL’s new rules? Plumlee, standing back with RB Jonathan Ward, took the opening kickoff 19 yards to the Steelers’ 23 yard-line, perhaps the first time in team history a quarterback returned a kickoff.