This week was light on rookie impact around the league, at least from
players who haven’t already been heard from in some way this season. A
few more undrafted players showed off their skills this past week along
with a couple of early-round picks who have bounced back nicely after
early-season struggles. Chris Tripodi takes a look at which rookies are
making a big impact as the NFL playoff picture takes shape.
Le’Veon Bell (RB-Pit)
A scary moment towards the end of last Thursday’s Steelers-Ravens
game took some of the attention away from a great game by Bell, as he
was involved in a late helmet-to-helmet collision that concussed him,
caused memory loss and took away a touchdown. Bell looks like he will be
fine to play this week which is great news for the suddenly competitive
Steelers, who will need their new workhorse back to put together more
games like he did against a strong Baltimore run defense with 136 total
yards and a touchdown.
Bell’s 43-yard third quarter run was a great display of the various
skills he’s shown this season. Starting by taking a handoff to the
right, Bell stutter stepped and waited for the hole to open before
quickly busting through to the second level. Using his vision to
recognize Antonio Brown’s block developing, Bell stopped and juked at
the last moment to avoid crashing into Brown’s defender and was in the
open field. While he lacks the breakaway speed to take this play to the
house, he showed good strength at the end of the run and fought for an
extra 10 yards to finish the play.
Read the read at Draft Insider
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment