Wit the Pittsburgh Steelers trading away their best wide receiver in Antonio Brown earlier this offseason, it goes without saying that they need their other wide receivers to step up and fill the void. Right? Right. But it’s not so streamlined. The team is going to need bigger contributions elsewhere as well. And there may be no deeper well from which to draw attentional resources than tight end Vance McDonald.
Acquired via trade in August of 2017, McDonald spent a lot of his first year with the team dealing with injuries. He only missed the season opener in 2018, but that also meant that he was injured prior to that, so he missed a lot of—pretty much all of—training camp.