Yesterday, I began to touch on fourth-year Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Antwon Blake and how his 2015 circumstances—moving into the starting lineup, but dealing with a hand ligament tear—had likely led to the team juggling and reshaping his special teams responsibilities.
In spite of the fact that he was the team’s most successful gunner on the punt coverage unit and performed well on kick coverage as well, these were the units in which he was taken off the field nearly entirely and most of the time, respectively.
I have found only two snaps all season in which Blake played as a gunner in 2015, one in the game that Shamarko Thomas missed, who had taken over for him as the team’s top gunner.