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Conner’s 2018 Five-Game Start Much Better Than Bell’s Last Season

Have the Pittsburgh Steelers missed running back Le’Veon Bell any through the team’s first five games of the 2018 regular season? If you’ve watched every offensive play of every game so far this season I’m willing to bet you would answer no to that question. As far as key rushing and deceiving statistics go, the Steelers aren’t missing Bell one bit through the first five games of the 2018 season as backup running back James Conner has done a fine job of filling in for him.

If you were to look at Conner’s raw stats from the first five games of this season and compare them to those of Bell’s through the first five games of the 2017 season, a few things will instantly pop out at you.