The Pittsburgh Steelers have released veteran wide receiver Scotty Miller, the team announced on Thursday.
Miller appeared in 13 games with the Steelers in 2024, starting one. He had five receptions for 69 yards.
In six NFL seasons, Miller has played in 80 games, recording 90 receptions for 1,154 yards (12.8 average) and six touchdowns.
The Steelers signed Miller to a one-year contract in May, following his former head coach Arthur Smith to Pittsburgh. With the Falcons last season, Miller was the No. 5 wide receiver option in terms of targets. Miller played in all 17 games and was targeted just 16 times, catching 11 of them for 161 yards and two touchdowns.
Prior to his stint with Atlanta, Miller spent four seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who selected him out of Bowling Green in the sixth round of the 2019 NFL Draft.
He played in 10 games and made two starts as a rookie in 2019. Miller saw his workload increase in 2020, when he started five games, played in all 16 and caught 33 passes for a career-high 501 yards and two touchdowns. Miller was a part of the Buccaneers’ 2020 Super Bowl-winning team.
Miller missed a big chunk of the 2021 season with turf toe, and never seemed to regain his previous level of production. He caught just five passes in nine games that season. In 2022, he played in 15 games and made one start. Miller was targeted 40 times, but caught just 23 for 185 yards, an average of 8 yards per catch.
The Steelers will go into Saturday night’s Wild Card Game against the Baltimore Ravens with George Pickens, Van Jefferson, Calvin Austin III, Mike Williams and Ben Skowronek as their wide receiver corps.