Today I wanted to provide some data and takeaways from watching the Pittsburgh Steelers preseason game against the Detroit Lions. Of course this is just one game, but will help us to see the trajectory of the players as the preseason plays out. With that in mind here is a graph of the Steelers offensive players snaps and grades from Pro Football Focus (PFF):
Ben Roethlisberger made his preseason debut, and I was very happy to see how good he looked in Matt Canada’s offensive scheme. Quite a bit of shotgun, motion and two play-action plays with Ben in the game and 10/16 (62%) of those plays were successful.