Beanie Weanie Wells in Pittsburgh today for

[lloydroid]

Has everyone concocted a mutual head trauma injury on this board and in Pgh? Wells is garbage.

1.) He is always hurt.
2.) When he DID play last year, he racked up a 2.7 apc. That sucks.
3.) He sure smells of PED.

Yea, PED, you know me.

[SteelerOfDeVille]

The Cardinals cut Wells & signed Mendy. Enough said.

EXACTLY!!!!! How low must they think of him to feel Mendy was an upgrade...

[JUST-PLAIN-NASTY]

We just let one problem go in their eyes anyway, so instead of finding a solution They bring in another problem.
With our money issues we won't be able to sign a good FA back or one any better than we have so the draft is our best option imo.

Signing Wells won't impact them drafting a RB. They will still draft a RB.

The stable we had last year is still here minus Mendy and it was? It is clear they need upgrades at RB and that number is at least +2. RBs in the draft are all over the board in hit and miss & round to production. They really need to get a RB here that has some type of NFL resume PLUS drafting one or two. It could be a Wells, a Bradshaw, a Phelix Jones....A body to compete. Given the cap situation...Bradshaw & Jones may be out of reach. Given what happened to Wells...He may be a good risk reward signee. He isn't going to get a big deal with limited to no gurnatees. You still draft a RB in the mid rounds. You let them battle through camp. Dwyer & Redman are on tenders. Redman will be 29. If Wells is beat out by Redman & Dwyer you cut him before the season starts. Makes alot of sense IF he has no chronic injury in that knee.

[JUST-PLAIN-NASTY]

EXACTLY!!!!! How low must they think of him to feel Mendy was an upgrade...

Cardinals new coach knows Mendy but only knows what he is told about Wells. What is his name again?

[hawaiiansteel]

Gerry Dulac @gerrydulac:

Beanie Wells has BAD wheel, source says.

[URL]https://twitter.com/gerrydulac[/URL]

[lloydroid]

Would actually be ok With Randy Moss, to be honest.

No way. We are trying to repair a broken locker room as it is. He may not be as caustic as he once was, but he also isn't nearly the play maker he was once either. He doesn't have much left, and his sometimes bad 'tude is exactly what the Steelers DON'T need right now. No reason to risk it.

[Siggy00]

28 catches 22 first downs in 2012.

If we want to value TOP and rest our precious defense, what's not to like?

[hawaiiansteel]

Beanie Wells' 'bad wheel' quashing Steelers signing?

By Chris Wesseling
Around the League Writer
Published: March 15, 2013

When the Arizona Cardinals released Beanie Wells last weekend, it was reportedly in part because they were not optimistic about the state of his right knee.

The Pittsburgh Steelers hosted Wells for a Friday visit, but a signing isn't likely to be forthcoming. One source tells the Post-Gazette that Wells was found to have a "bad wheel."

Although Wells did miss lose half of the 2012 season to a turf toe injury, it's a good bet that the knee is the "wheel" in question.

Still just 24 years old, Wells has plenty of time to salvage what has been a disappointing career since being drafted 31st overall in 2009. A signing may be on hold, though, until his troublesome knee shows signs of returning to full health later in the offseason.

Meanwhile, the Steelers' backfield options are growing thin. The best back left on the market, Ahmad Bradshaw, has a bad wheel of his own following the latest round of foot surgery.

Tailback appears to be a position general manager Kevin Colbert will have to address in the NFL draft.

[URL]http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000151119/article/beanie-wells-bad-wheel-quashing-steelers-signing[/URL]

[lloydroid]

Good. Thank God the team was forced out of a "Duce Staley" kind of signing. The draft has some good backs. I still like Bell out of MSU a lot. Should be able to get him in the 3rd. That would be truly sweet.

[thor75]

I am glad this signing didn't go down too. I think a RB drafted in the mid rounds has as much potential as a current Wells. I'm bummed we didn't sign Butler though, he probably wants to hear what his old DC Rob Ryan has to say in N.O.