If you assume Aaron Rodgers is back under center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the roster starts to look, well, fine. Not flashy. Not broken. Just solid in that way teams like to pretend is more stable than it actually is in October.

There’s enough competence across the depth chart that you’re not staring at obvious disaster zones. A lot of “serviceable.” A lot of “can survive.” And in today’s NFL, that’s basically currency. But wide receiver depth is the one place where survival and confidence are not the same thing.

The Biggest Roster Hole

Aaron Schatz of ESPN sizes up the biggest roster holes for each NFL team going into the new season in a Thursday, May 7 feature.

For the Steelers, he picks wide receiver depth.

“Pittsburgh Steelers Wide receiver depth If we assume that Aaron Rodgers is returning to play quarterback, then Pittsburgh’s two-deep depth chart is pretty solid,” he states. “There are plenty of average players, but it’s hard to find places where the Steelers need to go from bad to average.”

He adds: “The biggest question might be what the Steelers will do if a receiver suffers an injury or if rookie Germie Bernard struggles. Roman Wilson barely played in his rookie season and had just 12 catches in 2025, his second season. Ben Skowronek can be a useful jack-of-all-trades but has only nine receptions over his two seasons in Pittsburgh. Fourth-round pick Kaden Wetjen is primarily a return specialist.”

Start with the uncertainty. Rookie Germie Bernard is part of the plan, at least on paper. But rookies at that position don’t arrive with guarantees—they arrive with learning curves and the occasional dropped third down that changes a drive.

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Behind him, the options get thin fast. Roman Wilson is still trying to turn promise into production after barely seeing the field as a rookie and finishing 2025 with just 12 catches in his second season. That’s not a breakout trajectory yet. That’s a slow build still waiting for its first real chapter.

Then there’s Ben Skowronek, who does a bit of everything and nothing in large doses—useful, dependable, but with only nine receptions across two seasons in Pittsburgh, he’s not stretching defenses. He’s holding pieces together.

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And fourth-round pick Kaden Wetjen is mostly in the conversation for what he does on special teams, not what he does as a receiver.

So the problem isn’t that Pittsburgh is empty. It’s that it’s one injury away from being very, very ordinary at a position that can quietly decide whether an offense keeps pace or starts playing catch-up too early.

If Rodgers is really the plan, then this is the part that needs attention. Because he doesn’t need a perfect room. He just needs one that can survive contact without turning every passing down into a question mark. Right now, that safety net feels a little too easy to fall through.