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In the meantime, Pittman and Brian Leonard, a second-round pick last year who started seven games at tailback and fullback, are getting long looks. Pittman had 139 yards last season while Leonard had 303 yards. Both averaged less than 4 yards a carry.

Pittman was a fourth-round pick of the Saints last year after leaving Ohio State as a junior and was among that team?s final preseason cuts before resurfacing with the Rams. He?s one of only five Ohio State backs with consecutive 1,000-yard seasons.

?We made an investment in our future picking him up last year, knowing he wouldn?t be ready and wouldn?t know our system,? Linehan said. ?By the middle of the year we were able to use him, he was able to get a lot of great reps in the offseason, and now he?s working with the (first team), so it?s night and day for him.?

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