Evan Silva’s Matchups: Steelers at Browns

Pittsburgh @ Cleveland

Team Totals: Browns 20, Steelers 16

Over his last 17 starts, Kenny Pickett is averaging a lowly 6.4 yards per attempt with 11 TD passes. He’s thrown for more than one score in a game once in his 22-game career. … For the first time, the Steelers started Jaylen Warren over Najee Harris in Week 10’s win over Green Bay. They each wound up playing 33 offensive snaps, although Warren erupted for 110 yards and a touchdown on 17 touches. Neither has a plus Week 11 draw on the road against a Browns defense permitting the league’s eighth-fewest fantasy running back points, but I’d take my chances on superior pass-game producer Warren if forced to choose between the two. … George Pickens and Diontae Johnson each ran 25 pass routes last Sunday against the Packers, while Allen Robinson checked in third with 18. Pickens is a boom-bust WR3 option against a Browns secondary in danger of missing top CB Denzel Ward (neck) and FS Juan Thornhill (calf). Johnson turned in a painful Week 10 dud (1/17/0) versus Green Bay but should stay plugged into fantasy lineups as a role-secure WR3. … Robinson hasn’t cleared 30 yards since Week 1 and hasn’t hit paydirt all year. … Pat Freiermuth (hamstring) is due back from I.R. this week, yet the Browns have allowed the league’s fewest fantasy points to tight ends keyed by Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah’s middle-of-the-field coverage.

Still decimated on the O-Line by losses of LT Jedrick Wills (MCL, I.R.), RT Jack Conklin (ACL), and swing OT Dawand Jones (shoulder/knee), the Browns now draw a Steelers defense generating the league’s eighth-highest pressure rate (25%).