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09-29-2010, 05:10 AM
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall has rushed for 332 yards this season.


Troy Polamalu, Aaron Smith, James Harrison and LaMarr Woodley would enter the discussions as the player the Steelers could least afford to lose.
Here is another: Rashard Mendenhall.
The Steelers' ground game, floundering for two years to the point that it took a presidential edict to go looking for it, has returned in a big way with Mendenhall blazing the trail. The halfback ranks fourth in the league with 332 yards rushing, and the Steelers are third in the NFL with an average of 150 per game.
They ranked 19th last season. They ranked 23rd the year before. They ranked lower only once in the past 40 years -- 31st in the disastrous Tommy Gun offense of 2003.



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