What Roethlisberger has going for him, though, is a good collection of skill players to target. That's not likely to be the scenario this year - Roethlisberger has had only one other season in his 16-year career with 600 attempts (and Brown is long gone). In short, his career year was all built on volume. Roethlisberger was not especially effective throwing downfield, nor in the red zone, in 2018.
Of course, it took the fourth-most pass attempts in NFL history (675) - and Antonio Brown - to accomplish the big stat line two years ago. Fewer attempts on a weak arm isn't a fantasy-friendly recipe.Ĭoming off career highs for passing yards and touchdowns in 2018, an elbow ligament injury ended Roethlisberger's season in Week 2 last year.
But even with those weapons, a declining Roethlisberger isn't likely to average 40 pass attempts per game again, as the Steelers have first-round pick Najee Harris replacing James Conner (Cardinals) as the lead back. Despite the drops, the Steelers have a talented group of wideouts, with Diontae Johnson, Chase Claypool and JuJu Smith-Schuster. It wasn't all his fault - his receivers dropped a league-high 39 passes. Roethlisberger completed only 31.3 percent (23rd) of his attempts of 20-plus yards and threw a league-high 359 attempts within five yards of the line scrimmage. No surprise, his 6.3 YPA ranked 31st of 35 QBs, and despite all those attempts and 33 TD passes, he finished QB14 in fantasy.
He had the third most attempts in the league last season (608), yet finished 16th in passing yards at 3,803 - the fourth fewest yards on 600-plus attempts in league history. Roethlisberger is back for his 18th season, but at 39 he doesn't appear to have much left in his arm.
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