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Conner wants to stay: ‘I’m Pittsburgh through and through’

Steelers running back James Conner is set to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2020 NFL season.

But he doesn't want to leave Pittsburgh. At all.

"It would be hard to [play somewhere else]," Conner told Adam Schefter on a recent episode of The Adam Schefter Podcast. " It would be hard to put another helmet on just because of everything and what this city means to me."

Conner, who grew up in Erie, Pa., and attended McDowell High School, also spent four years at Pitt, where he was the ACC Player of the Year in 2014 and named first-team All-ACC in both 2014 and 2016.