PITTSBURGH -- Le’Veon Bell couldn't take the field with the Pittsburgh Steelers for the first three games this season, but he did coach an 11-man team while he waited.
His backfield tandem: His two rottweilers, Buddy and Beautiful.
The rest of the squad: The couple's litter of nine puppies.
Add the family boxer named Baby that often visits Pittsburgh with his mother, and Bell was toting the leash much more than the rock for the last two months.
Life without football got a little easier as Bell served a three-game suspension for missed NFL drug tests.