George Pickens and Calvin Austin III believe the Pittsburgh Steelers' new scheme is much better vertically.
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens & Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Joey Porter Jr. during training camp on Aug. 11, 2024. Kylee Surike | Special to PennLive
The Steelers simply did not do much of that last season. They would throw deep balls down the sideline on go routes, but the"The scheme of it is great,” Pickens said. “I’d probably say a lot of scheme is deep balls because you guys remember last year, I was running only go routes. So, I was running deep balls last year, too. But scheme-wise, I feel like it’s a way better scheme vertically.”
However, another benefactor of the scheme is Austin. The speedy, smaller wide receiver projects as the Steelers’ Kalif Raymond, who could get four or five targets per game on deep balls. That is“Just from a standpoint that we can get the same formation and have various routes off that same bunch, that same stack, that same single alignment,” Austin said about how the scheme helps him.
“It obviously matches perfectly because it’s just going to make it that much harder to cover,” Austin said. “It’s going to be almost impossible because the defense really doesn’t have a chance to be right. Even if they do take one thing away, with that concept we have, you need answers for everything.”
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