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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Pittsburgh Steelers Team Preview

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe previews the Pittsburgh Steelers for 2021 fantasy football purposes including rankings and projections for all of the key players. Jeff kicks things off with some thoughts on Ben Roethlisberger showing sings of decline. He then turns his attention to the Steelers wideouts and tells you what he expects from Diontae Johnson, JuJu Smith-Schuster, and Chase Claypool. Jeff next breaks down why Eric Ebron is no longer draftable. He wraps things up with Najee Harris' outlook in Year 1.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, it's the rant, my name is Jeff Rackle, but it is Thursday, July 15th, halfway through July already.

0:24.5

It's going fast, man. It's going fast, but it's a good problem to have fantasy football draft season.

0:31.0

Well, I mean, hey, for me, I'm actually three weeks out from my first major fantasy draft of the year and

0:38.0

five weeks out from my favorite draft of the year. That's crazy, man. But again, a good problem to have.

0:44.0

And we're rolling through these teams. We're going to get up through this by the end of next week.

0:47.7

We'll have every team previewed for you. Then we can dive into a lot of the fantasy draft topics that you

0:53.1

need. So you can dominate your drafts today. Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh, interesting team.

0:59.2

Najie Harris. So we'll dive into that. Just a moment, just a reminder, there is a contest going on

1:05.3

that I am going to wrap up here. The end of this week. We're going to name a winner. And we're

1:10.4

basically at the end of the week. So you still have some time to get in. Here's the contest, rate and

1:14.8

review the show on Apple podcasts. Super easy to do. And in the review, leave your Twitter handle

1:22.0

and you're entered into win. If you win, you get a free rant t-shirt. I love that right there.

1:28.0

Free. Free is the best price, right? So hook it up. I'll hook you up. All right. Also, don't forget

1:35.1

over at ftn fantasy.com. You can check out all of my tears articles. They are all live on the site.

1:42.5

Quarterback, running back, wide receiver tight end for free. But if you want to subscribe as well,

1:47.8

you can get in and get access to my fantasy football draft guy, the 2021 edition of the game plan,

1:55.1

where you can get my draft board, man. So get in on that over at ftn fantasy.com. Use the promo code

2:02.0

rat pack at yourself a discount right there. All right. So let's dive into the Pittsburgh

2:05.9

Steelers. I think the elephant in the room in Pittsburgh right now is whether or not we are seeing

2:13.0

the actual decline of Ben Rothisberger. Is it actually happening? Now the pro Rothisberger camp would

2:22.4

perhaps point out that last year he was coming off of a surgery. Yes, the arm strength didn't look

2:30.4

close to 100% didn't look like what we saw earlier in his career. And I don't know if anybody's

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