Filed under: Packers, Steelers, Super Bowl, NFL Analysis
DALLAS -- It is a good look now, an enriched view for Rashard Mendenhall as he arrives here on Monday with the Steelers.
Thirteen rushing touchdowns and a cornerstone 324 carries during the regular season. Two rushing touchdowns against the Ravens in the divisional playoffs. A potent 121-yard rushing night against the Jets in the AFC championship game. Those are jaunts, leaps that make people take a second look at this running back. A revised look .
Mendenhall, 23, in only his third pro season, has a chance for his second ring. This is the surface of what Super Bowl XLV offers him.
But Mendenhall reaches much deeper.
Something has clicked, something has settled with this player, this ardent reader, this passionate poet who remains mysterious to many.
He left the University of Illinois as a junior and was drafted by Pittsburgh in 2008, the 23rd overall selection. Two weeks later, he was robbed at gunpoint in Chicago. Four games into his rookie season, he suffered a shoulder injury on a Ray Lewis hit that caused him to miss Pittsburgh's final 15 games, including the Super Bowl XLIII victory over Arizona.
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/31/rashard-mendenhall-breakout-season-poetry-in-motion-for-pittsbur/
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