Statistically speaking, there hasn’t been a lot to get excited about through two preseason games in regard to Pittsburgh Steelers rookie running back Benny Snell Jr. After all, Snell, the team’s fourth-round draft pick this year out of Kentucky, has carried the football 20 times for 42 yards, an average of just slightly over 2 yards per rush. While those stats aren’t great, Saturday night against the Kansas City Chiefs we saw Snell excel some in an area that he also excelled in during his college career at Kentucky and that’s short-yardage situations.

As I pointed out in a post not long after the Steelers drafted Snell, the Kentucky product registered a 71.8% successful play percentage during his college career on 3rd down runs in which 3 or less yards were needed. That solid success rate also came via 78 total attempts. Against the Chiefs Saturday night, Snell was given four short-yardage carries and he was 3-of-4 on those with one success being wiped out and thus not counting because of a penalty. Below is a quick and dirty look at those four short-yardage attempts that Snell had against the Chiefs.

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