With the calendar hitting July on the 2019 NFL schedule, just weeks away from training camp beginning, it might be easy to start to forget that, a year from now, Pittsburgh Steelers running back James Conner was still an afterthought, at least to a certain degree, in the team’s plans.
Even up until the week of preparation leading up to the season opener, everyone on the team, Conner included, anticipated that All-Pro Le’Veon Bell would come strolling through the doors of the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, swooping in as the proverbial savior.