While their offense sputtered up until mid-November when Bryce Young returned to the lineup and their defense was putting in the worst season in NFL history, their special teams unit was also not doing anything special. Things were bad enough in this phase of the game for the front office to scrap the whole thing and start over from scratch for the 2025 season. According to The Athletic’s Joe Person, four players are in the mix to take over in this department: rookies Jimmy Horn Jr. and Trevor Etienne and veterans Raheem Blackshear and Rico Dowdle. Blackshear has the most experience in this group and led the charge last season, but he didn’t do anything worth writing home about.