Pittsburgh Steelers: 5 Players who need to play well to beat Raiders in Week 2

4. Chukwuma Okorafor, Offensive Tackle

The plan for most of the offseason was for Chukwuma Okorafor to be the team’s starting left tackle. But with an injury to Zach Banner and the emergence of rookie Dan Moore Jr. in camp, Moore got the start on the left with Okorafor manning the right side. And in Week 1, it wasn’t hard to see why the Steelers didn’t prefer the more experienced player on the blindside.

Okorafor was bull-rushed a few times and was thoroughly outmatched. He was tossed backwards multiple times and seemingly looked like a speedbump rather than a roadblock on the edge of the Pittsburgh line. With a matchup against Maxx Crosby coming in the matchup with the Raiders, Okorafor will need to be up to the task if the Steelers offense is going to flow well.

3. Pressly Harvin III, Punter

Pressly Harvin III may be a surprising addition to this list seeing that he’s a rookie punter. However, if the Pittsburgh Steelers offense has another lackluster effort, he will be key to helping out the defense by putting the Raiders in consistently bad field position.

In the Week 1 victory, Harvin put the Steelers in one bad position early with a subpar punt from deep in Pittsburgh territory, which gave Buffalo terrific field position. He bounced back but the Steelers can’t afford for the rookie to give a potent Las Vegas offense those types of opportunities on Sunday.