With Najee Harris signing elsewhere in free agency, it finally looked like Jaylen Warren’s time to be the lead back of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Injuries hampered him in 2024, but he split reps pretty evenly with Harris when healthy in 2023, and he has always been the more efficient back. But with the Steelers drafting Iowa RB Kaleb Johnson in the third round, how will the snaps be divvied up?
“Warren will begin as the No. 1 back, but he won’t be a workhorse, just as we saw Najee Harris’ workload diminish each year,” Gerry Dulac wrote this morning in his Steelers chat via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.