If there’s one quarterback who is aware of the total potential of WR Diontae Johnson, it’s future Corridor of Famer Ben Roethlisberger. Johnson’s lone Professional Bowl season was Roethlisberger’s remaining 12 months within the NFL.
Within the two years they labored collectively, Johnson had 195 receptions for two,084 yards and 15 touchdowns, however he has in any other case performed with fairly awful quarterbacks. That adjustments now that he was traded to the Baltimore Ravens. Roethlisberger thinks that can be an excellent factor for the Ravens.
“I feel you’ll begin seeing much more of him,” Roethlisberger mentioned of Johnson through his Footbahlin’ podcast on YouTube. “It’s in all probability a sensible transfer for him. He was with the Panthers, who clearly, issues weren’t going nicely down there. And also you immediately go from one of many worst groups within the league to the most effective, to a contender. And so I feel it’s a superb transfer for Diontae. I feel it makes them much more harmful…I feel they’ve two MVP candidates on offense, and also you’re simply including one other man that may stretch the sector, that may do some issues — one other weapon for Lamar. So I simply assume that it makes them that rather more harmful of a crew.”
Johnson wasn’t well-liked in Pittsburgh by the tip of his tenure, however there is no such thing as a doubt that he is without doubt one of the premier route runners within the league. He’s elite at getting separation, and now he can be in an offense the place not a lot consideration is paid to him by opposing defenses. Together with WRs Zay Flowers, Rashod Bateman, and TEs Mark Andrews and Isaiah Possible, the Ravens have every part they want for a harmful passing recreation. It is a huge downside for defenses centered on stopping the bottom recreation powered by Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson.
This video was recorded earlier than the commerce deadline day, so Roethlisberger doesn’t have the most recent data on Mike Williams or Preston Smith being on the Steelers. That being mentioned, he went on to say the Steelers aren’t in the identical class because the Ravens or Payments but within the panorama of the AFC. Johnson makes that hole even trickier to shut. We’ll see if that hole does exist in simply a few weeks when the Ravens come to Pittsburgh for the Steelers’ first AFC North matchup of the 12 months.
