With just 96 rushing yards through two games, the Pittsburgh Steelers are toying with historical organizational futility. As we pointed out recently, if they are held to under 60 yards on the ground on Sunday night against the Las Vegas Raiders, they would have their lowest rushing total through three games since at least the NFL merger.
While TE Pat Freiermuth is undoubtedly completely unaware of that obscure factoid, he is nevertheless confident that better days are ahead. They did run the ball better this past week than they did in the opener, even if that isn’t saying much.