The Pittsburgh Steelers traded WR Diontae Johnson at the start of the new league year, and Quez Watkins signed as a free agent a couple weeks later. The two moves share a correlative factor not just for the Steelers, but for the player.
The fifth-year veteran acknowledges that he saw the Johnson trade as an opening. “For me, when I saw they traded Diontae, it was a great opportunity to potentially be a No. 2 or whatever they want me to do”, Watkins recently said, via Ray Fittipaldo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “It’s a good opportunity to compete for that spot”.