There are certain advantages, depending upon your outlook, to being the ‘veteran’ back in the room, even if you are only heading into your third season, with one year of starting experience. After making the Pro Bowl in 2018, however, and having two younger backs behind him, James Conner has been given some lighter work than he has in the past two offseasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Where, by the way, he also worked as the top back, with Le’Veon Bell a non-participant in the offseason training.
But now Conner is preparing as the starter knowing that he is going to be the starter, while second-year Jaylen Samuels and rookie Benny Snell, Jr.