Have you heard that there is an area in the middle of the field beyond the line of scrimmage in between the hashmarks? It seems as though this was welcome news to the Pittsburgh Steelers last Sunday. They finally began to target that area—much to former Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger’s excitement right from the very first play with an explosive pass to TE Pat Freiermuth.
“I loved the start down the middle to Pat”, he said on the most recent episode of his Footbahlin podcast. “There it is”.
Notably, they continued to use the middle of the field, particularly exploiting Freiermuth’s presence.