In 2016, the Pittsburgh Steelers experienced life without Martavis Bryant. Suspended for the year, the team struggled to move the ball without a viable threat opposite Antonio Brown. The likes of Cobi Hamilton, Eli Rogers and Darrius Heyward-Bey were just not enough to force teams to not double, sometimes triple, team Brown on his side of the football field.
Entering this season, with Bryant back in the fold, it looked as if the one-two punch of Brown and Bryant would be back, and hopefully better than every, but rookie receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster certainly threw a wrench into those aforementioned plans.