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<p>PITTSBURGH &#8212; Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger openly took his team&#8217;s wide receiver group to task after a loss in the AFC championship game in January, stressing the team needs to develop playmakers outside of All-Pro Antonio Brown.</p><p>Roethlisberger&#8217;s bosses were listening.</p><p>The Steelers took USC wide receiver Juju Smith-Schuster in the second round of the draft on Friday, giving Roethlisberger a big target to hopefully take some of the pressure off Brown.</p><p>&#8220;Really kind of a do it all guy,&#8221; Pittsburgh offensive coordinator Todd Haley said. &#8220;Can play inside (and) outside. If you had to say what he excelled at, the ability to catch the ball in combative situations. Those 50/50 balls, he usually comes down with them.&#8221;</p><p>The 6-foot-2 Smith-Schuster caught 213 passes for 3,092 yards and 25 touchdowns in three years with the Trojans before electing to enter the draft early. Schuster-Smith is the youngest wide receiver in the draft. He won&#8217;t turn 21 until November, when he&#8217;s more than halfway through his rookie season.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll do anything possible to bring the Steelers back to the Super Bowl, special teams, be a role player,&#8221; Schuster-Smith said.</p><p>Pittsburgh entered the draft looking to find a deep threat to complement Brown. Injuries to Markus Wheaton and Sammie Coates and a Martavis Bryant&#8217;s year-long suspension force the Steelers to rely on small, undersized receivers like Eli Rogers and Demarcus Ayers. Though they played well at times, they were a non-factor in AFC title game as New England pulled away.</p><p>Things could be very different this fall. The NFL conditionally reinstated Bryant last week. Coates should be healthy. Like both of them, Smith-Schuster is tall and can get downfield. He averaged 16.3 yards per catch as a sophomore in 2015, when he caught 89 passes for 1,454 yards.</p><p>Smith-Schuster also likes to block, a trait that endeared him to the Pittsburgh coaching staff, though he didn&#8217;t know it. Smith-Schuster said he only spoke to the Steelers during the NFL combine in February and didn&#8217;t hear anything until he received a phone call shortly before he was taken with the 62nd overall pick, a call he admits he wasn&#8217;t expecting.</p><p>This is the highest the Steelers have taken a receiver in the draft since picking Limas Sweed in the second round in 2008. Sweed was a bust - catching just seven passes in his career - but that was a lifetime ago by NFL standards.</p><p>The pick certainly raised eyebrows among his new teammates.</p><style>
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Steelers take receiver Juju Smith-Schuster