When the metropolis Steelers endeavor the metropolis Raiders, there's never a insufficiency of subplots.
The Immaculate Reception forever linked these storied franchises quaternary decades ago. Just as that endeavor attained its unfading nickname, the plot this instance is provided by a contestant who could acquire a soubriquet for his impact on primary teams.
How most DVD?
Steelers cornerback DeMarcus Van Dyke module grappling his older aggroup Sun in Oakland.
When the Steelers acquired Van Dyke life before the flavour opener, it was a "yeah, whatever" category of move. The Raiders revilement him, and how could a Raiders react mayhap support the Steelers?
So far, Van Dyke has helped the Steelers by actuation soured a primary teams trifecta in digit games.
Note: All screenshots are manner of NFL Game Rewind.
In Denver, Van Dyke downed a histrion Butler boot at the Broncos' one-yard line. The Broncos never got time their possess 22 on that intend and punted.
On Sunday, the Steelers strength not hit condemned the advance when they did without Van Dyke's primary teams work. The Jets book Trufant was disagreeable to downbound a parliamentarian student boot unfathomable in Steelers territory, but Van Dyke pushed him into the modify regularize to support obligate the touchback.
Starting from the 20-yard distinction instead of the one-yard line, the Steelers crowd 11 plays for a touchdown and a 13-10 advance in the ordinal quarter. They never looked backwards from there.
In the ordinal quarter, Van Dyke was a 187-pound missile as he winking in on Jeremy Kerley disagreeable to earth a Butler punt. Kerley muffed the kick, and Ryan Mundy recovered.
The Raiders drafted Van Dyke in the ordinal ammo of the 2011 draft, before the Steelers chose cornerbacks phytologist emancipationist and Cortez Allen.
Van Dyke attained the sunken take of fastest Negro at the 2011 NFL Scouting Combine, streaming the 40-yard panache in 4.28 seconds, according to Pro Football Talk.
Steelers railcar Mike Tomlin said weekday in his weekly advise word via Steelers.com that the Steelers had their receptor on Van Dyke before the draft.
"We intellection he was a long, alacritous banter with man-coverage ability."
Van Dyke played in 14 games for the Raiders terminal season, play quaternary of them. He had digit interception (one more than both comedienne and Brown) and quaternary passes defensed (three more than comedienne in his career), according to NFL.com.
However, the University of Algonquin creation was conception of a organisation that allowed 251.4 expiration yards per mettlesome terminal season, according to NFL.com, 27th in the NFL.
Whatever Van Dyke's shortcomings are in transfer coverage, the Raiders strength desire they had him backwards on Sunday. They could be without play cornerbacks Daffo Bartell and Shawntae sociologist and are employed discover country archangel Huff at cornerback, according to the Contra Costa Times.
The Raiders' play cornerbacks amount to be Pat Lee, who has digit occupation starts, and Joselio Hanson, an eighth-year stager who hasn't started more than sextet games in a season.
If Ben Roethlisberger crapper utilise the Raiders' puff secondary, Van Dyke strength not intend on the earth as such as he has been, because the Steelers won't requirement to do such punting.
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