"The Steelers keep saying there's nothing wrong with Rashard Mendenhall, that their running game is fine. That defies what everyone can see on the field on Sundays.

Maybe Isaac Redman (207 yards, 4.4 ypc), Mewelde Moore (69 yards, 5.8 ypc) and Jonathan Dwyer (115 yards, 8.8 ypc) have been productive when given the chance, but Mendenhall has not.

He has had one good game, 146 yards Oct. 16 against Jacksonville. He also missed the Oct. 9 game against Tennessee. His other games: 45 yards, 66, 37, 25 and 32.

This is the back coordinator Bruce Arians called "the lead dog and everybody else feeds off of him" before the season opener. Those numbers suggest some sort of dog, but "lead" is not one of them."