Steelers News: Porter, Haley, Bell

The Steelers draft picks have been made and the offseason workout program is in full swing.

Steelers season never truly ends for Steeler Nation so while the team starts to put in the work to prepare for the 2016 NFL season we’ll be busy looking for mentions of your Black & Gold so we’ve got you covered. Here’s your Steelers Morning Huddle for Friday, June 10^th.

Steelers rules

If someone said to you ‘Steelers Rule’ you’d undoubtedly reply; ‘Yeah the Steelers rule!’ but in addition to being awesome the Steelers are often the standard for which new rules must be made. Before Steelers Hall of Fame cornerback Mel Blount came along you could knock the snot out of receivers in the NFL.

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Before Hines Ward knocked Ed Reed into next week receivers could hit back but the NFL has time and time again had to change the game because of the Steelers. Now there is the Joey Porter rule, which prohibits assistant coaches (we’re looking at you, Peezy) from going onto the field to check on an injured player and totally hose the idiot Bengals players into giving up the game.

ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reports that when Porter was asked about if he would adhere to the new rule he promised to abide and no issues with it at all.

Getting after it

Steelers offensive coordinator Todd Haley spoke about his expectations for the offense this season as OTAs wrapped up. Teresa Varley has Haley’s comments about expecting the offense to score at least 30 points a game this season.

"“Thirty points per game is still a goal. I think what we did great last year was we got in the red zone a bunch. We probably scored 6 out of the 10 times we were in there and we always want that to be better. There’s not a lot of separation from us and the top teams in the red, but clearly when you get down into that area of the field you got to come away with points and the more times it’s touchdowns the better.” – Todd Haley"

Yes, let’s score lots and lots of touchdowns. Two point conversions don’t hurt either.

Straight Fire

Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell is a busy guy even if he hasn’t been at OTAs since the first week. He’s been ranked No. 41 on the NFL Top 100 players of 2016 list and he’s got a song collaboration with Snoop Dogg that’s about to drop. I hear its dope AF.

Bell will be all business when it comes back to being with the Steelers. Mandatory minicamp starts next week and he’ll have plenty of time to drop straight fire before reporting to training camp at the end of next month.

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Don’t expect the Steelers to all of a sudden become a two-back team after the success of DeAngelo Williams filling in for the injured Bell last year. Bell is still the primary back and his injuries weren’t durability injuries so there’s no worry to feature him as long as he’s healthy.