An MRI performed Monday showed no structural damage.
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Because the Broncos outlasted the Chargers on Sunday, the Steelers will face their division’s champion, the Bengals, on Saturday night in a wild-card round game. Williams has every intention to play Saturday, which bodes well for the Steelers chances of advancing to a Divisional playoff game in Denver.
Roethlisberger threw three touchdown passes, Pittsburgh’s defense dominated and the visiting Steelers slipped into the AFC playoffs with a 28-12 win Sunday over Cleveland, which after the game fired coach Mike Pettine. “That to me is the resume: how hard the guys play, the effort that goes in, how hard we practice, what we do in meeting time, walkthrough, out on the practice field, how that carries over to the game field. We have to run the ball better than we did today if we want to stay in this tournament for any length of time”.
Needing a win and Buffalo to beat the New York Jets to gain the last spot in the AFC playoffs, the Steelers (10-6) got both. We know what we’re chasing. Todman finished the regular season with four carries for 22 yards and was inactive for the final five games of the regular season. Toussaint rushed for 24 yards on 12 carries against Cleveland, so you can understand why it is important to have Williams on the field. He was also a threat out of the backfield with 18 catches and 203 yards.
“It keeps things fresh, it inspires guys”, Tomlin said.
“I’m more concerned with trying to put pressure on the quarterback and trying to make the quarterback make mistakes and not concerned with who we do it with”, Butler said.
Since Le’Veon Bell was placed on the injured reserve list the first week of November, Williams has stepped up. He had a pair of 1,000-yard rushing seasons and a Pro Bowl appearance with the Panthers.
Cincinnati linebacker Vontaze Burfict accumulated almost $70,000 in fines for three illegal hits against the Steelers, but several Steelers players were fined in that game as well, including safety Mike Mitchell to the tune of $23,000 for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Bengals tight end Tyler Eifert. Not only when he was called up and active but when he was serving us in the scout team capacity when he was a practice squadder…
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They’d prefer to have Bell or Williams. Williams was seen in the Steelers locker room earlier Wednesday wearing a plastic boot on his right foot.
