Either way, Williams is being characterized as day-to-day. Pittsubrgh then had to ask Williams, the 32-year-old former Carolina Panthers player, to be their primary back after Bell suffered a season-ending knee injury on November 1. “All we can do is focus on getting the win now”. We’ll let his practice participation be our guide. Also sitting out Wednesday was linebacker Vince Williams (illness), but he should be good to go by the time Saturday rolls around.
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@ Both Tomlin and Lewis said they didn’t expect any carryover from the previous game between these two teams, a game in which the National Football League levied almost $150,000 in fines.
In a report by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it seems like Toussaint will get the starting stint if Williams is unable to play against Cincinnati.
The offense repeated its mistakes against the Browns, but the defense bailed them out with four second-half turnovers.
“I’m not at all [concerned]”, Tomlin said. He brings a business-like approach.
“How hard the guys play to me is the resume”, Pettine said before the firing. “We know who we are. He was given that on Sunday, and he delivered”, he added.
The two combined for all of 64 yards rushing this season and their playoff experience is limited to two nominal carries by Toussaint last winter while playing for the Ravens.
Three plays later, Harrison jumped in front of an Austin Davis pass in the middle of the pack, 1 yard deep in the end zone, and picked it off. He returned it only 6 yards this time, to the 5, but it was a turning point.
“He’s a talented and hard-working guy”, said Tomlin about Toussaint. “Not only when he was called up and active, but when he was serving us in the scout team capacity”.
“I like the demeanor in which they took the field in some of those instances where we were put on the short field”. And that doesn’t mean as receivers, either. Williams left Sunday’s game with an ankle injury that had him standing in the tunnel in a walking boot congratulating his teammates after the game. “He threw for a lot of yards and got some touchdowns”. All the injuries, the early season suspensions and the meltdown in Baltimore mere footnotes now.
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“They’re very capable of attacking you in a variety of ways with a variety of people”, Tomlin said. DeAngelo usually gets offended by that; he says it’s not his first rodeo. After an ugly separation from the Panthers, Williams joined Pittsburgh to backup Le’Veon Bell.
