Ranking The 10 Greatest Steelers Running Backs of All-Time – Who Are Your Choices?

[Drink IRON City]

Or the Bus Driver.

Definately under ratted as a Steelers player but he wouldn't make top 40 RB no matter what angle you spin.




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[Stewey]

Definately under ratted as a Steelers player but he wouldn't make top 40 RB no matter what angle you spin.




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Agree.
Although he's my personal top 10 just for flattening Ray Lewis lol.

 

[madinsomniac]

Dri archer should have been a RB…

 

[pittbull]

Dwight Stone

 

[steelerscotty]

Excluding Mendenhall from this list disqualifies it.

Yes, he fumbled in the Super Bowl, but #1 they aren't even there without him and #2, it was on the legs of Mendenhall that the momentum had even begun to shift. I will argue that if Pouncey were healthy that the Steelers win that game. Doug Legursky was shoved right back into Ben's throwing motion to create the pick-6 and Legursky missed the pull on the block that gave Clay Matthews a clean shot at the ball, and if he were blocked by Pouncey, the hole for the first down and 7-12 more yards was there for the taking.

In the first 4 games without Ben when he had 411 yards and 4 TDs. In the AFC Championship vs. the Jets, it was all about how the Jets beat 2 of the 3 AFC QBs that had represented the conference that decade (Manning, Brady and Ben) - but they came out running it and Mendenhall had 90 yards rushing in the first half alone where they got the 24-3 lead. He had 4 TDs and 230 yards in that post season run.

His ACL tear in the final game of the 2011 regular season was devastating. I always thought the 2011 Steelers were better than the 2010 version, but the injuries and the last second loss to Baltimore that prevented them from winning the division was killer to what I still believe would have been a Super Bowl run.

He never came back from that ACL injury, but I would take his 2009-2011 over Barry Foster's 1992 one-year wonder and being a $hit teammate who only tried when he wanted to.

Plus wiff Johnson blocked the wrong guy (again) on Mendy's fumble play.

 

[Drink IRON City]

Agree.
Although he's my personal top 10 just for flattening Ray Lewis Multiple times in his Carrer, P-A-N-C-A-K-E anyone ? lol.

Just helping yaz out on your explanation



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[madinsomniac]

Recent “starting type” Fullbacks would technically be hoge, john l williams, witman, krieder, davis, Johnson, and watt.. im probably missing one or two… Kuhn was cut before he could really play here iirc… a shame we missed out on him…

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Dwight Stone

“Hands Of”

 

[Confluence]

Plus wiff Johnson blocked the wrong guy (again) on Mendy's fumble play.

I do not think Whiff blocked anyone on that play.....which was the problem because Mendenhall expected him to at least lean on the tackler right in front of 85.

 

[Drink IRON City]

Recent “starting type” Fullbacks would technically be hoge, john l williams, witman, krieder, davis, Johnson, and watt.. im probably missing one or two… Kuhn was cut before he could really play here iirc… a shame we missed out on him…

Nice list of Fullbacks but Tim Lester lead the way for a certain HOF'er.................



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[madinsomniac]

Nice list of Fullbacks but Tim Lester lead the way for a certain HOF'er.................



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Damnit i knew i was missing people… damn my old memory lol

 

[Drink IRON City]

Damnit i knew i was missing people… damn my old memory lol

Join the club............................. what was I after again (while walking down my long hallway) ?




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[Stewey]

For goodness sakes how do we discuss the all time Steelers RB greats and not mention Eric Peegram!!!???

 

[suncitysteel]

Amos Zereoue was cookin' in his 5 seasons in Pittsburgh.

Najeh Davenport could've been on this list had he not crapped his career away.

 

[FSF]

For goodness sakes how do we discuss the all time Steelers RB greats and not mention Eric Peegram!!!???

Because Tim Worley had more rushing yards with the Steelers

 

[Steelworth]

Amos Zereoue was cookin' in his 5 seasons in Pittsburgh.

Geez, completely forgot about Famous Amos. I think quite a few of us are losing our memories.

 

[steelville]

You all forgot the unforgettable Jack Deloplaine, the 'hydroplane', and Sidney 'Thunder' Thorton... Not in any top 10 list, but entertaining to watch back in the day.

 

[bermudasteel]

Am I the only one who thinks Lev Bell should be #2 on the list???

 

[Steelworth]

Over Franco or Jerome?

 

[bermudasteel]

Over Franco or Jerome?

Over Jerome.

Seriously, Bell was 'so special' that his patient running style and superior catching abilities made his head explode. It still bothers me that all that talent we had (with the Killer Bees) never accounted for at least one SB victory...

Do not get me wrong, Jerome is still top 3 but I think Lev Bell is disliked because the way he left the team.

So, let's ask this question, who is the best WR in Steeler history??? Any answer other than "AB" is wrong.

 

[Steelworth]

Over Jerome.

That's a hard sell for me, Berm. I get where you're coming from in that Bell was special with the Steelers, but it was for a brief period and he hasn't done anything since.

You're talking about a guy who has less than half the yards & TDs of Bettis over his career. When you take everything into consideration, I don't know how one can think otherwise.

 

[Stryker]

No Frenchy??? I protest!!!

 

[Stewey]

No Frenchy??? I protest!!!

Lest we forget those goldfish shoes!

 

[BLITZ]

Because there have easily been 10 RBs better than Pollard, including not mentioned on this list

Rashard Mendenhall
James Conner
DeAngelo Williams
Whizzer White
"Bullet" Bill Dudley - the only Steelers player to lead the NFL in rushing (2x) and a former NFL MVP (along with Terry Bradshaw they are the only two Steelers to win the award)

I liked Pollard and he ran hard, but he was not a feature RB despite starting on a team that really needed him to be.

Whizzer was a Steeler for 1 or 2 years max. wouldnt count him as top 10

 

[Djfan]

I was pissed when Kreider was let go. Kuhn, too. The backfield of today's NFL is lame, imo.

I hung out with Frenchy a time or two, so he's on my list.