Running back Le'Veon Bell is eying a return to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2024.
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00:00 Good on Le'Veon for trying to make this comeback. I respect that a lot.
00:04 Doesn't seem likely to me, especially if his one team is the Steelers that he wants to come back to.
00:10 I don't know, he might have to play the slot if he comes back here.
00:14 Because I don't know whose touches he's taking away if he's playing running back.
00:19 But that's also what Cam alluded to when he said, "Yeah, he'd bring a lot of great knowledge to the room."
00:30 He'd probably be a bit more of a veteran leader than he would be a real impact player on the field.
00:36 But I'm just not sure, man. He took a year off and it clearly was not the same player when he came back for the Jets that he was with the Steelers.
00:47 So I don't know how six years or five years, however much more time he's taken off. I can't remember when he last played.
00:55 His last game was 2021. He played for the Ravens and then the Buccaneers, I believe.
01:00 Oh, shit, I forgot about that. But yeah, three full years off from professional football.
01:07 It's been even longer than that since he was a real impact player for any team.
01:11 So I just don't really see the fit. But good on him. I like Le'Veon.
01:17 I feel like a lot of the animosity has passed for how he left the Steelers.
01:22 I feel like it'd be better vibes. It'd be good closure, at least.
01:26 But I don't really see what the Steelers would get out of this reunion.
01:30 No, if he's going out there, and again, I like Le'Veon. I wish him the best.
01:35 If he wants to come back to the NFL, cool. Good luck.
01:39 You better start working on special teams. You better be able to cover kicks and punts
01:44 and maybe return a couple of kicks and punts, who knows.
01:47 But you're going to be a running back three in Pittsburgh.
01:50 The last running back three who was supposed to be just a running back three
01:55 ended up on the practice squad for some dude who could do more as a running back three.
01:59 You got to be able to do more. You got to be able to be a special teamer.
02:02 You got to be able to have that full arsenal.
02:06 I don't know if that's what you're looking at at 30 years old.
02:09 I don't know if that's what you're even interested in to come back.
02:12 A guy like Le'Veon, there's a pedigree there.
02:15 In his head, if he's playing football, he's making an impact in the NFL.
02:20 And the Steelers are not looking for somebody to come in here and make an impact.
02:23 There's no team in the NFL that's like, "Yeah, we have three great running backs."
02:27 Three of them. And we utilize all of them all the time.
02:30 Nobody does that. You have two. That two is great.
02:33 It took the Steelers forever just to admit that they should use two.
02:37 They're not going to do it with three. They're not looking for that.