Brief and to the Point ...
Sammie Coates can sprint the straight-line route, he can stretch the field, and he might even be capable of saving the Steelers' offensive playbook without Martavis Bryant.
But he shouldn't be defined by any of those beforehand.
"Denver," Coates was telling me Monday afternoon at his stall. "Look at Denver. That's me."
He made only two catches in that game, the Jan. 17 AFC Divisional Playoff loss in Denver, but those also accounted for two-thirds of his rookie season total, so the sample size seems fair. Especially since those catches accounted for 61 yards. One was a 24-yarder from Ben Roethlisberger across the middle in which he spied a rare soft spot in the Broncos' secondary, and the other was this nifty 37-yard catch-and-run:
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