Potential Martavis Bryant Suspension Would Strain Steelers’ Offensive Depth

March 12, 2016   ·   Ty Schalter   ·   Jump to comments

The Pittsburgh Steelers can be one of the best teams in the AFC with or without wide receiver Martavis Bryant, but without him, there's far more pressure on every one of the Steelers' offensive players—and far less margin for error.
Bryant's potential one-year suspension under the NFL's substance abuse policy, first reported by Dejan Kovacevic of DK Pittsburgh Sports, comes as a shock. He sat out the first four games of 2015 for the same reason, but he eventually picked up where he left off at the end of his explosive rookie year. Fifty catches, 765 yards and six touchdowns in just 11 games. And only five of those were starts? Ridiculous.
The Steelers thought he'd put his problems behind him. This past January, team president Art Rooney II said he thought the 2015 suspension served as a wake-up call for Bryant.
"Martavis is a player who has tremendous ability and potential, and we just have to continue to work with him to make sure he takes...

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