The Worksheet, a fantasy football overview by Rich Hribar, breaking down everything you need to know for the Week 8 Pittsburgh Steelers at Cleveland Browns Sunday afternoon game.

PittsburghRank@ClevelandRank
3.5Spread-3.5
19.5Implied Total23
19.526Points/Gm24.712
2212Points All./Gm23.618
6316Plays/Gm6514
63.217Opp. Plays/Gm58.62
5.125Off. Yards/Play6.18
5.616Def. Yards/Play52
34.66%29Rush%49.89%2
65.34%4Pass%50.11%31
40.11%12Opp. Rush %39.27%11
59.89%21Opp. Pass %60.73%22
  • Under Mike Tomlin, the Steelers are 12-5 (8-9 ATS) coming off a bye week.
  • The Browns are allowing a league-low 4.6 yards per play on first down.
  • The Steelers are averaging 4.0 yards per play on first down plays, the fewest in the league.
  • Just 31.1% of Ben Roethlisberger’s pass attempts have come on first down, the lowest rate in the league.
  • Cleveland ranks second in the rate of runs allowed to gain five or more yards (27.9%) and first in rate of runs allowed to gain 10 or more yards (6.2%).
  • The Browns rank second in rate of runs to gain five or more yards (44.9%) and first in rate of runs to gain 10 or more yards (15.9%) offensively.

Trust = spike production for that player
Bust = down-week production for that player’s standards

Quarterback

Ben Roethlisberger: Big Ben has yet to close out a week higher than QB18 with five weeks as the QB23 or lower. Roethlisberger has thrown multiple touchdown passes just once on the year. Cleveland has been a mixed bag defensively and is 28th in passing points allowed per attempt (0.55), but the only QB1 scoring weeks they have allowed are to Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert, and Kyler Murray. Roethlisberger is a back-end QB2.

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