Bills vs Steelers Preseason Recap: Risers, Standouts, & More | DC

Let's start with, I think, the lowest hanging of fruit in this episode.

Skylar Bell, as Shell comes in and says, Skylar Bell.

That's all.

Yeah, I think Skyler Bell looked good tonight.

I still think – for me, I'm still – I'm moving around too much.

I'm moving the camera out of focus.

I think for me with Skyler Bell and with, I think, the preseason in general, right, there is some tempering of expectations still.

But it was nice to see the Bills – purposefully feed him the ball in a multitude of ways, getting him on the move, letting him use that long speed, the manufactured touch on the touchdown, the under center play action and the crossers to allow him to find space.

The first target towards him, I think it was the first one, the one that Buschel sailed over Skyler Bell when he was open, they're just trying to kind of create traffic with those crossers, but bell sets it up really nice.

He hits his landmark in terms of his depth of where he should kind of break that crosser and kind of literally stop going on a 45 degree angle and break him more across field.

And he sets it up to kind of run interference on his man and create that obstruction ball sails over him.

Um, but that was a nice play right there.

I thought he had, uh, some nice separation with physicality at the top of the route on the catch right before he got the jet sweep for the touchdown.

Um, Um, then there's the, I mean, if he would have come down on that play, I think it was the third down where he goes up and tries to get it.

The DB punches through the hands and rips the ball out.

Uh, I think that would have just sent everybody into an absolute frenzy, but a really good performance from Skylar Bell.

Um, and essentially what was his only preseason action, not a ton of off season action for Skylar Bell, as we know.

banged up during, uh, mini camp and the off season as a whole, not a ton of action in training camp that he's playing in training camp.

He's got some drops kind of just whatever hasn't played in the preseason and he plays tonight, gets a ton of work, gets a ton of targets.

You can see that there was a focused effort to get him the ball as they should.

Right.

You know, I think kind of seeing what you got, uh, Is he ready to kind of be on the roster now? What can he be? But again, you know, you're playing against bottom of the depth chart guys for the Steelers.

You're playing with bottom of the depth chart guys for yourself, but you still want to see him go and put a good foot forward or his best foot forward.

He looked good tonight.

I said it on social earlier.