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Pittsburgh Steelers

This is a committee. DK Metcalf holds 22.5% of the targets, and the 14 tracked pass-catchers project for 24 receptions and 241 receiving yards in week 4.

Who owns the targets

Trailing target share, largest first. Target share reproduces at 0.92 between halves of a season, so this is a stable picture of the pecking order rather than a snapshot of one good game.

22%17%13%13%12%30%DK MetcalfRoman WilsonJaylen WarrenPat FreiermuthMichael PittmanEveryone else

Receivers

PlayerSnap shareTarget shareProj. catchesProj. rec yardsIf he sits
DK Metcalf WR196%22.5%3.957who benefits
Roman Wilson WR258%17.3%2.332who benefits
Michael Pittman WR380%12.1%3.338—
Germie Bernard WR depth37%8.3%1.918—
Ben Skowronek WR depth20%3.0%0.710—
Kaden Wetjen WR depth0%0.0%0.41—

Tight ends

PlayerSnap shareTarget shareProj. catchesProj. rec yardsIf he sits
Pat Freiermuth TE166%13.3%3.227who benefits
Darnell Washington TE264%7.9%2.321who benefits
Robert Tonyan TE34%1.1%0.1-0—

Backs

PlayerSnap shareTarget shareProj. catchesProj. rec yardsIf he sits
Jaylen Warren RB166%13.3%3.325who benefits
Rico Dowdle RB242%9.5%1.515who benefits
Eli Heidenreich RB depth4%0.0%0.3-1—
Lew Nichols III RB depth5%0.0%0.5-1—
Travis Homer RB34%0.0%0.1-1—

The ground game

Projected for 22 carries and 89 rushing yards, with Jaylen Warren taking 58% of the work. Carries per game is the second most repeatable thing a player has — 0.97 between halves of a season — so a backfield split holds up far better than a touchdown rate does.

PlayerCarriesRush ydsYds/carryAnytime TD
Jaylen Warren RB12.5584.6619%
Rico Dowdle RB9.1313.3616%
129Jaylen WarrenRico Dowdle

Whose role has changed since last season

Snap share this season against last, for anyone who has moved at least six points. This is the input the model leans on hardest early in a year, because snap share is already reliable at 0.84 after two games while receptions manage 0.66.

Pittsburgh Steelers snap share changeRoman Wilson+24.633→58%Jaylen Warren+15.550→66%Pat Freiermuth+15.051→66%DK Metcalf+8.887→96%Darnell Washington+7.157→64%Robert Tonyan-7.812→4%Rico Dowdle-12.955→42%points of snap share

Ranked by trailing target share, tie-broken on snap share · concentration measured as a Herfindahl index over the tracked room · projections as-of-week with no lookahead