stillers4me
11-12-2010, 04:59 PM
By: Mike Bires
Beaver County Times
Thursday November 11, 2010 11:54 PM
PITTSBURGH — If one more Steelers running back would have gotten hurt Monday night, Troy Polamalu may have been called upon to carry the football.
“Troy is always our emergency running back,” offensive coordinator Bruce Arians said.
In the 27-21 win in Cincinnati, backups Mewelde Moore and Isaac Redman were sidelined with concussions. Moore left the game in the second quarter, Redman in the fourth.
Because rookie Jonathan Dwyer was a game-day inactive and not in uniform, the Steelers were down to just one running back.
If Rashard Mendenhall would have gone down, it would have been Polamalu, the all-star safety, who would have gone in at running back.
“Definitely,” said Polamalu, who played running back and defensive back in high school. “I practiced at running back during our bye week. It was nice. It was fun.” .........
Read more.....http://www.timesonline.com/sports/sports_details/article/1424/2010/november/11/in-a-pinch-polamalu-can-be-running-back.html
Beaver County Times
Thursday November 11, 2010 11:54 PM
PITTSBURGH — If one more Steelers running back would have gotten hurt Monday night, Troy Polamalu may have been called upon to carry the football.
“Troy is always our emergency running back,” offensive coordinator Bruce Arians said.
In the 27-21 win in Cincinnati, backups Mewelde Moore and Isaac Redman were sidelined with concussions. Moore left the game in the second quarter, Redman in the fourth.
Because rookie Jonathan Dwyer was a game-day inactive and not in uniform, the Steelers were down to just one running back.
If Rashard Mendenhall would have gone down, it would have been Polamalu, the all-star safety, who would have gone in at running back.
“Definitely,” said Polamalu, who played running back and defensive back in high school. “I practiced at running back during our bye week. It was nice. It was fun.” .........
Read more.....http://www.timesonline.com/sports/sports_details/article/1424/2010/november/11/in-a-pinch-polamalu-can-be-running-back.html