Former Pittsburgh Steelers RB Merril Hoge is a big fan of the newest Steelers running back, third-round pick Kaleb Johnson out of Iowa. Hoge is notoriously not a fan of the NFL Combine, and he downplayed Johnson’s pedestrian 4o-yard dash time.
“Kaleb Johnson, he’s really smooth, like he’s fluid, he’s a lot smoother and more fluid than you see a lot of runners. And he’s explosive. To your point, when you watch him on tape, he hits a seam, nobody catching him. That’s what I’m going by. Not what he ran a 40 in his underwear. I don’t care about that,” Hoge said Wednesday on the DVE Morning Show.