Todd McShay 2021 Mock Draft: Steelers Select Alabama RB Najee Harris

[Black&Gold]

Welcome to the 'Burgh!

https://twitter.com/steelers/status/1388982128847855620

EDIT: The last time the Steelers picked a running back in the 1st round they won the super bowl. also had the hardest schedule in the nfl that year just like this year. History will repeat...!

I already have Franco's jersey, I'm thinking about getting Najee's too

https://shop.steelers.com/pittsburgh-steelers-2021-nfl-draft-first-round-pick-replica-nike-jersey?utm_medium=social&utm_source=stw&utm_campai gn=first+round+draft+pick+jersey

[Joel Buchsbaum]

I already have Franco's jersey, I'm thinking about getting Najee's too

https://shop.steelers.com/pittsburgh-steelers-2021-nfl-draft-first-round-pick-replica-nike-jersey?utm_medium=social&utm_source=stw&utm_campai gn=first+round+draft+pick+jersey

It would be real bad @ss if you can get a custom Harris jersey #22 in block numbers.

[hawaiiansteel]

Marshawn Lynch calls Najee a freak of nature:

https://steelersdepot.com/2021/05/marshawn-lynch-calls-new-steelers-rb-najee-harris-a-freak-of-nature/

[steeler_fan_in_t.o.]

Marshawn Lynch calls Najee a freak of nature:

https://steelersdepot.com/2021/05/ma...eak-of-nature/

Nobody would know better. Hopefully he is a more interesting interview.

[NJ-STEELER]

i was looking at bell's numbers his last here year and projecting Naj get the carries to possibly match those numbers.
thinking it might be worth a nice long shot for O Rookie of the year

opened at 16-, and its now 14-1

looks like i wasn't the only one thinking that

[Black&Gold]

i was looking at bell's numbers his last here year and projecting Naj get the carries to possibly match those numbers.
thinking it might be worth a nice long shot for O Rookie of the year

opened at 16-, and its now 14-1

looks like i wasn't the only one thinking that

sounds like a good bet.

biggest unknown is our offensive line, they might suck.

[NorthCoast]

Harris gets the call; https://twitter.com/i/status/1390041107703033856

[Black&Gold]

Harris gets the call; https://twitter.com/i/status/1390041107703033856

that was cool, thanks

[hawaiiansteel]

Dale Lolley
@dlolley_pgh

May 6

Najee Harris' leaps over opponents are so legendary, it's now illegal to leap over an opponent in a California high school football game because of the "Najee Harris Rule."

[Black&Gold]

Dale Lolley
@dlolley_pgh

May 6

Najee Harris' leaps over opponents are so legendary, it's now illegal to leap over an opponent in a California high school football game because of the "Najee Harris Rule."

thats crazy

[Steel Maniac]

thats crazy

That is crazy .

[hawaiiansteel]

An aspect of Najee Harris' game that Mike Tomlin might want to nip in bud right away

May 9, 2021

If the Steelers want to keep rookie running back Najee Harris around for a while, head coach Mike Tomlin might consider sitting Harris down for a serious discussion.

The hurdle.

The leap.

The jump.

Whatever you want to call it.

“The hurdle—that scares my life,” Harris’ mother, Tianna Hicks, shared in AL.com’s “Najee Harris: Road to the Pros.”

It was high school when Harris first started the habit of hurdling defenders, and Hicks was not pleased.

“You can’t do that,” Hicks told her son. “We gotta figure out another way ’cause that’s dangerous. I can see somebody just catching you in the air and, oh my God, you helicoptering, spinning across the field.”

The jaw-dropping plays made for great collegiate highlights, but defenders in the pros aren’t so forgiving. Harris won’t have any legs to catapult him into the air over would-be tacklers if he keeps it up.

Tomlin and running backs coach Eddie Faulkner might consider working with their prized running back to reverse the hurdling habit this offseason.

https://steelerswire.usatoday.com/2021/05/09/pittsburgh-steelers-najee-harris-hurdle-leap-jump-defenders-mike-tomlin-nfl/

[feltdizz]

its illegal to jumps over a defender? huh?

Do they blow the play dead?

What is the rule? If a defender is on his feet you can’t jump? What if he is diving at your feet?

[Captain Lemming]

What is the rule? If a defender is on his feet you can’t jump? What if he is diving at your feet?

[hawaiiansteel]

RB coach Eddie Faulkner had to tell Najee Harris to stop working so hard

https://steelersdepot.com/2021/06/ed...a-deep-breath/