The Steelers were just gifted a GOLDEN opportunity...

Pittsburgh Steelers have a golden opportunity following yet another injury last week to Roman Wilson, a wild name. A former Steeler has entered the news cycle as new reports have dropped revealing the Steelers' next move. We're going to break that down, discuss what it means going forward, as well as a few other tidbits from practice today ahead of the big, big game this upcoming Sunday. But before we get into all that, and there is a lot, a very quick reminder to hit that subscribe button. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a lot to go over today, and of course, in case you missed it, obviously a couple days ago on Sunday. Roman Wilson went down with an injury i had a short on it and jack had a video earlier today he is out for the foreseeable future but they need a wide receiver they need another one even if you're super high and ultimately Jeremy Bernard has shown a lot but even if you're super high on Bernard you're gonna need another wide receiver and articles reports are starting to fly surrounding Juju Smith-Schuster so you can see here the Steelers better hurry if they want to bring Juju back and all of a sudden now after getting waived i think it was by the Giants he is available and fans absolutely are begging clamoring whatever word you want to use to bring juju back and i don't necessarily blame them i'm a huge i mean i'm sure a lot of you guys are from that hit but i'm a huge juju fan doesn't make sense let's dive into it now now it is clear at this point and i'm gonna have another video probably tomorrow another wide receiver like they're gonna make a move here soon right they need help with the wide receiver position and have a few outside options that are worth exploring and before i dive in all those i do want to make it clear I am very high on Jeremy Bernard I think he is perfectly capable of being the WR2 he was last week Aaron Rodgers loves him they had that report about how Aaron Rodgers quizzed him and he absolutely aced it and nailed it but they still need more depth right whether it be a WR3 even just a wide receiver that can help block and I think if you're the Steelers you know looking at Juju Smith could make some sense obviously we can kind of look at how the timeline went for Juju Smith Schuster June 2026 the Giants signed Juju and then released him back in August and then as of yesterday, the Vikings evaluated and worked out Juju Smith-Schuster. So if the Steelers want to go out and actually get him fairly quickly or actually pursue him, it's going to have to be sooner rather than later. But I'm curious to see what you guys think about it, right? Because there's been a lot of reports in the past, even Michael Pittman Jr., when he first came over to Pittsburgh, he was kind of recruiting Juju Smith-Schuster, but he's not the best option, right? When it comes to pure skill. And obviously the Vikings are interested. They could use some wide receiving help the Steelers obviously of course are going to be interested but we can look at Juju's stats from just last season and this is the fun part about it he's been very very I guess up and down if you want to call it that obviously in 2023 he put up 345 yards 2024 I was obviously with Kansas City 231 we know with the Steelers had that big big 1400 yard season and fans I think a lot of fans are ultimately I like Juju Smith a lot I'm sure a lot of you guys do too some of you guys may hate him he's a polarizing name he had that big you know retaliatory I guess hit if you want to call it that that fans kind of love him for but I'm curious to see what you guys think about because at the very least it's not like he's old he's only 29 or now 30 years old and he's coming off a year where a Super Bowl contending team in the Chiefs gave him 12 starts and he put up 345 yards like I think this is absolutely a move the Steelers should be pursuing just because a the vibes are kind of funny b you don't really have a ton of other better options now there's other names that are being thrown out there which i'll dive into i think if you're the Steelers you probably need to go ahead and make some sort of addition and why not get a guy who um can i get a guy who you have experience with in the past now last year struggled obviously his last five games was averaging 27 and a half you know yards a game the first 11 so he did struggle down the stretch who knows how his training camp was because he did get released from the Giants in in august of course but i don't know i'm kind of just a fan of this i think it would be fun right obviously he's getting older he hasn't gotten much better but even just a few years ago like four years ago he had an almost thousand yard season in the world in the uh in the season that the Chiefs won the Super Bowl and i'm not gonna you know sit here and say that Juju is going to be able to come out and actually be a great receiver but he's a very very to this day a very very strong blocker he could help open up a lot of seams for other guys him and Aaron Rodgers i think could have a pretty a unique connection now obviously you're going from Patrick Mahomes to Aaron Rodgers to the greats in NFL history i think it makes some sense now we think back to the spring he was recruited this was from Michael Pittman Jr. on the Instagram Juju Smith-Schuster made a post and then Michael Pittman responded when you're coming home oh gee obviously bringing more spotlight to it I think makes sense now there are of course some questions with the fit one of them will he pass his physical I would assume so but that's obviously the number one question how quickly can he learn the offense this is something i think actually benefits him compared to other guys he's a veteran he's been around a ton of different teams he's been a part of a Super Bowl winning team i think if there's one thing he can do that's adapt fairly quickly um and i also think he can provide some dependable complementary snaps he's not going to be someone who's going to go out there and play a ton but i think if he blocks plays his role almost kind of like Jeremy Bernard was doing before obviously very different player and the price obviously i assume it's going to be minimum like very very cheap i would assume the minimum there are some other wide receiving options as well that have been out there like Gabe Davis, Curtis Samuel, okay KJ Osborne from the practice squad Tyler Johnson the thing becomes though when you start to look at those guys i think i want to bring in a veteran at this point and someone who's been around it before Jordy rocking with Jeremy Bernard as your WR2 you have DK Metcalf as your WR1 so comment down below do you want do you think it's a good opportunity do you think he's washed i just think it's a pretty good opportunity now to get someone you're somewhat familiar with at least to a degree and at least as an organization obviously there's been some turnovers but also we have to talk about Jeremy Bernard a little bit right so obviously something else to keep in mind Ben Scronek's also unavailable more of a special teams guy but you're without your three without three wide receivers here and that is interesting it's going to expand though Jeremy Bernard's role and he's ready for it you can see here from Brian Angelo the Steelers offensive coordinator Jeremy offers you so much flexibility because he's such a good blocker and he's good with the ball in his hands kind of similar to what Juju Smith-Schuster would do but now you'd be kind of replacing that WR3 role with Juju Smith and ultimately you're going to be giving Jeremy Bernard a much bigger role going for this season he's put up 140 yards he's looked better game by game had a season high in yards from 60 or 80 whatever it was on sunday and all of a sudden now he's better i think than a lot of people thought he was going to be right off of rip and it's as simple as that you can see one of the comments from my video a couple days ago glad he's back Omar Khan should have never cut him as far as roman wilson being out next man up and i like bernard over wilson anyway better route runner good hands like mike tomlin said one man's misfortune is another man's opportunity shout out the call uh shout out to raven 5672 for the comment in the video leave your own comment down below if you want to be featured but he's right like jeremy bernard is going to have to step up now and i think he is another note pat fryermuth they're starting to use tight end heavy sets and really start to get a focal point clearly has been getting the tight ends involved whether it's pat fryermuth whether it's Darnell Washington. Mike McCarthy even went as far as saying that he thinks Pat Fryermuth can be one of, if not the best tight end in the NFL, be a multi-time pro bowler. And that showed in last, uh, in Sunday night's game with the way that they use him. You have your OC saying, I think that's, what's nice about having a flexibility with the tight ends is that you can use some for blocking like Darnell Washington. You can use some for obviously being a receiver two touchdown for him two touchdown, sorry for him. And even went in the Pat McAfee show after the game and said I definitely see myself as more of a focal point of the offense so vibes are pretty high folks uh the big thing will be how does Jeremy Bernard step up on Sunday how does uh Omar Khan go about replacing the lost production over the past over the next few days it's going to be interesting as we approach practice week a lot of things to keep an eye out on um Deshaun Elliott Rico Dowdle hopefully both those guys will be returning the potential for Brandon Smith and Wetjen if they don't go out and get another guy um and ultimately here the veteran wide receiver I think they're going to make a move. Thank you guys for watching