Plays of the Year: JuJu Smith-Schuster makes clutch TD catch on fourth down

Metal Metropolis Underground presents “Performs of the 12 months” that includes the highest runs, catches, hits and all the things else in-between from the Pittsburgh Steelers 2020 season.

Whereas the top results of the Wild Card weekend sport between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns wasn’t what Steelers Nation hoped for, there have been a couple of brilliant moments within the second half of the sport.

Down 16-35 within the fourth quarter and searching for a comeback bid, Ben Roethlisberger orchestrated a 12-play drive that culminated when embattled receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster – harangued by media and followers for his TikTok and private methods to succeed in followers and have enjoyable – caught a landing cross that put the Steelers inside twelve factors of their AFC North and playoff rivals.

Beginning at their very own 32-yard line, Roethlisberger opened the sequence with three fast passes earlier than handing the ball off to James Conner for a five-yard run. Smith-Schuster then moved the chains when two passing makes an attempt to Chase Claypool have been incomplete.

On the Cleveland five-yard line, it appeared just like the Steelers won’t discover a means into the top zone. Tight finish Vance McDonald missed a brief cross within the middle of the top zone, the ball hitting his palms and falling to the turf, earlier than two passes – one to Diontae Johnson and one other to Eric Ebron – fell incomplete.

On fourth-and-goal, nevertheless, Roethlisberger connected with Smith-Schuster in probably the greatest drives between the duo for a five-yard landing.

With simply 12 factors between the 2 groups, Steelers followers waited on bated breath to see if ‘Huge Ben’ may as soon as once more pull a rabbit out of the hat for a magical ending.

Sadly, after the Browns grabbed one other interception – that put Cleveland forward 48-29 – a 33-yard cross to Smith-Schuster, a seven-yard landing catch by Claypool, and a profitable two-point conversion weren’t sufficient to compensate for early errors and miscues that Cleveland took benefit of when leaping out to an early first quarter lead.

Roethlisberger would end the sport 47-of-68 passing with 501 passing yards, and having not been sacked by Cleveland.

Smith-Schuster logged 13 catches on 19 targets for 157 yards (12.1 yards-per-catch common), a landing, and the longest cross play within the sport for Pittsburgh.