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Pittsburgh Steelers, Willie Parker, National Football League - CBSSports.com
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Originally Posted by sportsline.com
Parker 'surprised' sharing spot as Steelers open minicamp
PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers can't afford to have the wheels come off Willie Parker again.
NFL teams rarely devote a first-round draft pick to a position of strength, but that is exactly what the Steelers did by choosing Rashard Mendenhall of Illinois with the No. 23 pick last weekend.
Suddenly, Willie Parker -- the NFL's leading rusher until breaking his right leg on Dec. 20 -- finds himself competing for every carry and every snap. The Steelers didn't draft Mendenhall to sit him, and that means Parker must share a ball that rarely wound up in any other Pittsburgh back's hands last season.
Parker and Mendenhall were on the field together for the first time Friday during the Steelers' mandatory three-day minicamp, and the Steelers' Pro Bowl running back acknowledged it was a bit of an adjustment sharing a position.
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