Notebook: TnT Backfield Deals With Success

In the Steelers' Thursday notebook, the T-n-T Backfield deals with success, so does Ryan Shazier, and an update on Ben and A.B.

PITTSBURGH -- The new running back has blown up.

After playing a key role in the Pittsburgh Steelers' playoff win at Cincinnati last Saturday, Fitzgerald Toussaint hasn't been available in the locker room during media hours anymore. He's been off doing the big national stuff: TV and radio in the Rooney Library. No local podcasts for this guy anymore.

"They tell me his bodyguards have come around a few times," said Toussaint's locker-room neighbor, Stephon Tuitt. "They come around from time to time and tell us what he up to. They'll deliver messages to him, if you…