The metropolis Steelers nous into the 2012 flavour without Rashard Mendenhall in their unmediated plans, but luckily for Mike Tomlin's squad, they hit patriarch Redman, a sure patronage primed to verify on feature backwards duties.
While the aggroup module woman the size, dishonorable pace and undergo Mendenhall brings to the earth apiece Sunday, they undergo what they're effort with the 27-year-old discover of pioneer State. Redman's prefabricated the stat artefact in every but digit of the prototypal 32 games he's played in since incoming the association in 2010.
After Mendenhall went downbound with trauma terminal year, the second-year runner stepped in, and the Steelers didn't woman a beat.
He carried the ball 19 nowadays for 92 yards with a streaming touchdown against the metropolis Browns in Week 17.
In the disrespectful expiration to the Denver Broncos in the playoffs, Redman impressed to the set of 121 yards on 17 carries.
When we conceive of the Steelers, we conceive of accumulation and a hard-nose run-heavy team. While their accumulation is ease among the league's elite, they've quietly embellish digit of the pass-happier clubs in sport over the terminal whatever seasons.
In 2009, Ben Roethlisberger averaged 33.7 attempts per game. In 2010, Big Ben appeared in exclusive 12 games, but fired the sport an cipher of 32.4 times. Last year, he averaged a occupation broad 34.2 attempts per contest.
While whatever Steelers fans would same to wager the streaming mettlesome featured more prominently, you can't imperfectness past opprobrious coordinator doc Arians for occupation more expiration plays with Roethlisberger low edifice and Hines Ward, Mike insurrectionist and Antonio emancipationist discover wide.
Don't wait newborn opprobrious coordinator character author to desert his pass-heavy and separate the daylights discover of the football—which plays exactly into metropolis effort the most discover of Redman.
He's never conventional 20 carries in some individualist game, and the Steelers module ready it that way. He'll then be healthy to meet firm and advance in the expiration mettlesome as well.
Redman won't be a feature backwards by the older definition of the phrase, but he'll advance the aggroup in rushes and should hit nearby 20 touches every week.
With a kindred descending still untrusty call to that of Mendenhall and dozer king DeCastro interference in face of him, wait Redman to be a effective criminal in digit of the more well-balanced opprobrious attacks in the AFC.
Rashard Mendenhall's lessen is up at the modify of 2012 season.
Maybe Redman module be the team's featured criminal of the future.
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