Mike Tomlin likes a clear masthead when looking at his backfield with the . Running back by committee? No, that's not really his style. As he noted on a conference call on Thursday, he's "a featured-runner type guy by mentality.""I think that when you have a featured runner, it gives him the opportunity to drop a stake in the ground and allows others to
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