The 2019 season of Pittsburgh Steelers running back James Conner certainly didn’t go as planned as injuries prevented him from playing in six full games and parts of a few others. Because of all the playing time missed by Conner in 2019, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was asked during his Tuesday end-of-the-season press conference how he goes about accounting for that when evaluating the running back’s season.
“That is a big component of it,” Tomlin said of Conner. “He didn’t spend a lot of time on the field healthy. But that is as much a part of the game as blocking and tackling.