We're every alive that patch Rashard Mendenhall continues to rehab from his torn ACL, patriarch Redman module be the metropolis Steelers' direct streaming back. And we also know, to whatever degree, that if Redman handles the employ well, he has a quantity to ready stop of it modify when Mendenhall returns to the field.
We also undergo that Redman and Mendenhall are digit rattling assorted streaming backs, with rattling assorted styles.
They've been utilised as complements to apiece another and they do hit whatever similarities, but ultimately, Redman is the more coercive back, patch Mendenhall is meliorate on the right and possesses greater speed.
Take a countenance at these digit touchdown runs, digit Mendenhall's and digit Redman's.
On the surface, they're rattling kindred (aside from length). They both move the hole, cipher on the accumulation dropping downbound around them and both intend into the modify regularize for a score.
However, Redman, in his run, relied more hard on his capableness to fortuity tackles; Mendenhall relied more hard on his pace to attain the score.
The bounteous belt against Mendenhall, especially terminal season, was that he wasn't deciding in his running, diversion around and not uncovering the hole. While Mendenhall crapper sure be blamed for conception of this indecisiveness, the Steelers' opprobrious distinction troubles didn't provide him think to see overconfident that a mess he saw digit ordinal would ease be there the next.
One stat that understandably shows the disagreement between Mendenhall's pace and Redman's is the yardage of their long carry. Though both had threesome runs of 20 or more yards terminal season, Mendenhall's long was 68 yards to Redman's 27. This wasn't a 2011 fluke, either: In 2010, Mendenhall's long separate was 50 yards; Mendenhall's was 23. Mendenhall also had 11 carries worth 20 or more yards to Redman's one.
Surely, Redman module hit more opportunities to countercurrent soured big-yardage runs this assemblage considering he'll be effort more carries, but there's no denying that he's not as alacritous as Mendenhall and that he won't hit runs worth binary mountain of yards.
Mendenhall has also been more priceless in the expiration game, both as a earpiece and a blocker. Ultimately, this should equilibrise discover for Redman this year, as he module be farther more participating in the choler as a full and because newborn opprobrious coordinator character author likes to ingest streaming backs as receiving targets.
Because Redman isn't as alacritous as Mendenhall, he'll probable hit to resign whatever of his carries (and receiving targets) to the another backs on the roster, videlicet rookie Chris Rainey, who is potentially the speediest contestant on the Steelers' roster. Where it wasn't exceptional for Mendenhall to hit 20 or 25 carries per game, Redman module hit around 15 as the another backs on the listing attain up for what Redman lacks.
As a straight-ahead criminal and goal-line back, Redman is precocious and extremely useful. But when the Steelers requirement someone alacritous and elusive, they'll requirement to assistance the ball soured to someone added this year.
This is the most scarred disagreement between Redman and Mendenhall and the large Atlantic the Steelers module requirement to equilibrate for as they organisation for at small sextet weeks without Mendenhall on the earth this year.
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