LATROBE, Pa. (AP) -The Pittsburgh Steelers’ running game went from very good to very average so quickly, even team president Art Rooney II became alarmed.
And when a man named Rooney becomes concerned with a Steelers’ deficiency, it often gets fixed in a hurry.
Watch a Steelers training camp practice, however, and it doesn’t appear as if an offense that was ninth in passing but only 19th in rushing last season – normally in Pittsburgh, it’s the other way around – is changing much at all.
Ben Roethlisberger is throwing better than he ever has in camp. Offensive coordinator Bruce Arians is expecting another 4,000-yard passing season by his quarterback, even though Roethlisberger will be suspended for at least one-quarter of the season.
And a team that was one of the last in the league to regularly use a traditional fullback has one player listed at that position, and he was added only this week.
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