In early July, we wrote about offensive coordinator Arthur Smith’s tendency to spread the love. This means his offenses weren’t concentrated around one guy dominating the stats. Certainly not when it came to touchdowns.
As we noted, since becoming a play caller in 2019, his Tennessee Titans and Atlanta Falcons’ offenses combined tied for the seventh-highest “touchdown spread,” the number of players who caught at least one touchdown pass in a given year. On average, it was 7.2 players. Compare that to the Pittsburgh Steelers, who had the tightest spread in the NFL over that same timeframe, with just 5.