Up to the point at which he was just arriving in Pittsburgh, 2018 had not been going well for Ryan Switzer, the second-year wide receiver who spent much of the year packing his bags and moving after having been traded twice. First it was from Dallas to Oakland in April, then from Oakland to Pittsburgh in August.
By that point, after having struggled to make any kind of connection, let alone impact, he wasn’t sure if football was going to be in the cards for him. That’s when Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers opened things up to him.