The NFL is a game of inches. Miss by a little bit and you throw an incomplete pass to wrap up a loss that, in the moment, felt like it ended your season. Make it and you throw the longest first quarter offensive touchdown in Pittsburgh Steelers. Football, man.
That’s how you can view WR George Pickens’ 86-yard touchdown Saturday evening against the Cincinnati Bengals. That playcall was the same as Pittsburgh ran on 3rd and 2 in the final minutes of their Week 14 loss to the New England Patriots, QB Mitch Trubisky missing Pickens on the slant.