Should i start mike wallace or antonio brown

Some people say that Wallace is a "one trick pony," while Brown is looked at as having much improved route running. Who do you think of when considering the Steelers greats?

All of these Steelers greats have signature plays in the biggest of games. Yes, Wallace had an amazing catch to defeat the Packers with no time on the clock. That was a regular-season game. The TD reception here in this video shows Antonio Brown making a yard catch to put the Steelers in position to defeat the Ravens and go to the Super Bowl.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have a long history of great receivers. Still, it might be best to not invest much of your fantasy starters with Pittsburgh players to start the year. They'll be shorthanded and facing Denver on the road for Sunday Night Football. It will be important to see if the Steelers can improve upon being 14th in rushing as they were last season, or if they'll lean heavier on Ben Roethlisberger. Playing in a very "defensive" division, I'd proceed with caution all around, but here is a preview anyway of the Pittsburgh Steelers offense.

Also, David DeCastro , G 1st. Mike Adam, OT, 2nd. I'm not inclined to say anything nice about Roethlisberger ever, so why should I start now? That's over a third of your schedule right there and the AFC North just plays a lot of good defense, especially when you count that even though the Browns might not be great overall, they have Joe Haden.

You would start Roethlisberger if he had a great matchup once or twice a year and that's it. In terms of backups, Byron Leftwich has had a very nice preseason, and Charlie Batch is still alive?

Even though he was activated off of the PUP list and won't need to miss the first six games, don't count on it. He is barely over the eight months it takes to recover from his injury and I can't imagine he'll be practicing in full pads soon.

Even then, his season will be touch and go, where at best I could see him contributing in November or December. In trying to assess the catch radius each Pittsburgh receiver showed in , I looked at each reception and made note of where the ball was caught. Also taken into consideration was the locations of their bodies at the time. Did they have to jump for the ball or dive to the ground?

Each type of catch will be described in detail below, but here is the summary of their receptions playoff game included :.

You can see Wallace is more likely to have the ball arrive at his chest, while also making more of the over-the-shoulder catches as he hauls in the deep balls. Brown had 17 receptions on targets thrown above the neck, compared to five for Wallace. Could those two inches in height be making the difference there? This is the most common kind of catch in football and likely the preferred delivery point for most receivers.

Hit the guy on the numbers, and he should be able to run after the catch because of the accurate throw. That is not to say you should always throw to the chest, as certain plays can benefit from deliveries that are more wide of the mark, allowing for catches in stride on slants, for example.

Low passes are almost impossible to intercept and are a safe tool for any offense. Ben Roethlisberger had all but seven of these completions Charlie Batch started against St. Louis in Week The Pittsburgh quarterbacks were able to hit the chest target on of receptions, good for Wallace caught 13 screen passes, and all 13 were caught at chest level. Brown caught 11 screen passes, but two were not thrown accurately, and Brown only netted one yard on those two plays.

That is still 22 out of 24 screen passes going right on the numbers, and that number really should be even higher. Here are some examples of Brown and Wallace making ordinary, chest-level catches in Basically, the pass hit the receiver in the chest, but the throw was low, which caused Wallace to crouch on two plays and literally kneel on the ground for the other two.

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