Do we really not have a WR #2?

I was not high at all on Roman Wilson going into the draft. Limited production on an elite college offense at Michigan. I felt like he was scrawny and lacked NFL quickness and burst. Nothing about him jumped off the page as being any better than average, and that was at Michigan. So to answer the OP's question, no, Wilson is not a WR2. In fact, he is probably a practice squad player on most other teams. Roman Wilson isn't very good. His ceiling IMO is that of a roster-able player. I predicted before the season Wilson would catch fewer than 10 passes in 2025. He sits at 12 currently, so I wasn't far off.

CA3 is a different story. I loved Austin coming out of Memphis. I was one of the few people that was excited about the pick. I was wrong on this one. Austin is better than Wilson IMO. He would make most other NFL rosters. But his ceiling sits at a WR4. CA3 doesn't run underneath routes well enough to be considered a WR3. He is undersized which hurts him running intermediate stuff. He also lacks football IQ which certainly doesn't help with him being on the field more than he should be.

So the answer to the OP's question is, Yes! The Steelers do have a WR2. His name is DK Metcalf. Trading George Pickens away before the season was beyond stupid. Trading him away for a pick in 2026, and not during the 2025 draft was even more stupid. Pickens was never replaced, and the Steelers are worse off in 2025 than they were in 2024, because Metcalf is nowhere near as good of a player as George Pickens is. The combination of those two guys could have been deadly. Instead we are stuck watching an offense trying to operate with 3 tight ends to cover up the fact that the Steelers don't have any receivers.

 

Still fuming. Players coach and u unload GP on a Rookie contract.

It was a pretty lonely critique on her for most part but now I appear to be in company and that company is growing.

Common sense is not very common.

 

It was still not a passing focused offense. They just threw deep off play action a ton (you are correct, having Derrick Henry makes passing easier). Brown and Davis both averaged just over 15 yards per reception. The 2020 Titans were 30th in the league in pass attempts. Tannehill was still able to chuck it deep at that point in his career.