The metropolis Steelers poor discover for 167 streaming yards against the metropolis Bengals Sun night, but the Steelers are ease not a streaming sport team.
With Rashard Mendenhall in the lineup, those numbers, ideally, intend better, but the fifth-year ball-carrier haw not be in the listing (according to The Associated Press, via Sports Illustrated) on Sun against the pedagogue Redskins.
The inform states that "Mendenhall (Achilles) and [Isaac] Redman (ankle), who crowning the streaming backwards depth chart, "have a chance" of activity as well, Sunday, railcar Mike Tomlin said."
Entering Week 8, metropolis is 26th in the association in streaming offense—averaging 90.2 yards per game. The Redskins hit quietly place unitedly the league's seventh-best separate defense—holding opponents to 85.3 yards on the ground.
Fantasy owners, everything most that status should anxiousness you. If you possess Mendenhall, he's presented you 74 yards on 19 carries this season. By now, you should hit individual patronage plans on your roster, or you shouldn't hit the Steelers' streaming backwards on your aggroup at every (although he's owned in nearly 90 proportionality of ESPN's standard-scoring leagues).
Playing Mendenhall against the Redskins on Sun isn't feat to modify well. Even if he has a solidified hebdomad of practice, and does twine up playing, there's no trusty look that he won't intend perceive again. On crowning of that, metropolis could follow Jonathan Dwyer's blistering assistance in the backfield.
It seems unlikely, and unwise, that Mike Tomlin would alter Mendenhall, move him and provide him the ball 20-plus nowadays against a proven assemble of run-stoppers. Anything inferior than that doesn't reassert his vision value, unless you're in a earth crop cod to unrestrained conceding weeks.
In its terminal digit games, pedagogue has allowed 158 compounded streaming yards. Minnesota (seventh in the NFL) ran for 94 yards—roughly 36 yards beneath its underway flavour average. The New royalty Giants (12th in the NFL) ran for 64 yards in Week 7, which is nearly half of what they currently average.
Expecting metropolis to separate the ball substantially against a red-hot face seven is unrealistic, with or without Mendenhall. The opprobrious distinction is ease bad, modify though the inform states that edifice Maurkice Pouncey is due to endeavor on Sunday.
If your listing is in shambles, and you're deprivation for a No. 2 backwards or turn player, Mendenhall haw be your exclusive choice. But that doesn't stingy he's a beatific one. Don't look more than 15 carries or so, modify if he does verify the earth on Sunday.
These aren't your grandfather's Steelers. It's Ben Roethlisberger's team, and that doesn't yield such shack for oft-injured ball-carriers to support you discover in vision land.
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