Since buying him three video games in the past, Mike Williams has one goal for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He has performed greater than 40 snaps over the previous two video games however merely hasn’t seen a goal. Although he proved he could make performs on the one goal he does have, they merely aren’t going his manner. And it’s not clear why.
“I don’t know. I’m at a loss to clarify it”, Ray Fittipaldo of the Pittsburgh Publish-Gazette mentioned on 93.7 The Fan on Friday about how the Steelers are utilizing Mike Williams. Fittipaldo thought the Browns recreation could possibly be a time that adjustments. “Perhaps there’s one thing occurring with the playbook. Perhaps he’s not getting open. I do know they spent a fifth-round draft decide on him, nevertheless it wasn’t like he was lighting the world on hearth with the Jets. However in some unspecified time in the future, you’ve bought to get your finest gamers on the sphere extra”.
Previous to the commerce deadline, the Steelers despatched the Jets a fifth-round decide so as to add Mike Williams. Whereas he solely performed 9 snaps in his debut days later, he caught the game-winning 32-yard landing. For now, that appears to be only a second in time as a result of they haven’t gone again to him since.
Williams performed 25 snaps and not using a goal towards the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, then 19 towards the Cleveland Browns on Thursday. Most of his snaps got here on passing downs, but he didn’t see a goal. Russell Wilson even tried 36 passes towards the Ravens, but there was none for Williams.
“Mike Williams ought to play extra; he needs to be focused extra”, Fittipaldo insisted, who has entry to Steelers practices. “Their most harmful gamers both aren’t enjoying sufficient or aren’t being focused sufficient, and I feel that’s an enormous downside with what’s occurring with that offense”.
Steelers OC Arthur Smith has a historical past of operating one-receiver offenses by way of quantity and manufacturing. George Pickens is that one receiver in Pittsburgh, and he often places up stable numbers. Calvin Austin III may have a robust recreation right here and there, however ordinarily, guys like Mike Williams are fairly quiet on the stat sheet.
That has definitely been the case over the previous two video games, however is there a superb purpose for it? In any case, Williams continues to be new right here, having had his first observe simply 15 days earlier than Thursday night time’s kickoff. We may fairly presumably see him extra concerned the following time the Steelers take the sphere.
Russell Wilson has 149 move makes an attempt this season, of which 39 have gone to Pickens, or 26 %. Austin claims one other 13 %, with Jaylen Warren, Najee Harris, Pat Freiermuth, Darnell Washington, and Van Jefferson claiming between 8 and 11 %.
But Scotty Miller and MyCole Pruitt, who’ve missed time or been inactive with Russell Wilson, have extra targets with him than Mike Williams. Ben Skowronek and Cordarrelle Patterson additionally match the one goal Williams has in three video games and 53 snaps. These are the information. What do they imply to the Steelers, and what do they plan to do with them?
