Le’Veon Bell, a running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, became one of the finest in the league during his five seasons with the team. Bell carried the ball 1,229 times for 5,336 yards and 35 touchdowns in 62 games played in the Steel City. In addition, he contributed 312 catches for 2,660 yards and 7 more touchdowns. In the five seasons that Bell started as the Steelers’ starting running back, the team finished 53-27 and Bell was a three-time All-Pro.
Due to a contract disagreement with the Steelers, Bell missed the entire 2018 season and never again donned a Pittsburgh uniform. Since then, he has apologized for missing out and for not playing his entire career with the Steelers. And now, Le’Veon Bell took to Snapchat to express a desire to make a comeback to the NFL and to the Steel City.
“I won’t start training until like March,” Bell said in one of a series of stories posted to Snapchat, per Alex Kozora of Steelers Depot. “And I’m gonna be honest with myself. I gotta go out there and be like, I’m gonna put my foot in the ground. Do I feel it? Am I hurting? Can I go out there and really play again?”
This is the part where I should mention that Le’Veon Bell is two days older than I am. As you’d probably be able tell in the photo of me at the bottom of this piece, I am not necessarily a young man, and if I had an athletic prime, I assure you that it came many, many years ago. But with that said, I wasn’t ever an elite level professional athlete, and as recently as 2021, Le’Veon Bell was still playing in the NFL.
Although Bell says that his body is “functionally stronger than ever,” he also mentioned that it has been more than a year since he last ran a full sprint. This is probably because of the training he undertook to knock Adrian Peterson out cold in a boxing performance. In the past year, I have even reached full sprint speed. Who the heck am I, though, to tell Le’Veon Bell or anybody else that they can’t achieve their goals?
Bell continued by saying that while he doesn’t know for sure if he’ll return, he does intend to test his body and decide from there.
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