The Pittsburgh Steelers may be down one member of their backfield on Saturday depending on whether or not their starting running back, DeAngelo Williams, is able to play through a foot injury suffered in the regular season finale, but there is one member of the backfield that they know they will be without, and that is first-year fullback Roosevelt Nix, who was put on injured reserve after suffering a foot injury of his own in the penultimate game of the season.
Nix came on strong in the preseason as a presence on special teams and earned himself a roster spot that way, but he also showed well for himself on offense serving as a lead blocker out of the backfield, which is a position that the Steelers had moved away from in the previous years.