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James Conner carving out role as goal-line back in Arizona

Former Pitt running back James Conner has yet to start a game for the Arizona Cardinals, but over the last three weeks, he has been getting into the habit of finishing what the team has started — namely its scoring drives.

Heading into the 2021 season, the plan was always for the fifth-year veteran to split snaps with Chase Edmonds, but how exactly that would shake out was unclear. So far, Edmonds has officially been listed as the starter in all five of the Cardinals' games, but on paper, the work has been pretty evenly split between the two.