This one has been circled on the calendar since the very beginning. Running back Le’Veon Bell left the Pittsburgh Steelers and signed a big free-agent contract to join the New York Jets. This week the Steelers go on the road and Bell will face his former team in his new home stadium. There’s this running narrative being forced on everyone that this is some sort of revenge game for Bell.
This is a point he denies and honestly, it makes no sense. What exactly doesn’t Bell want revenge for? Does he want revenge on the team that wanted to keep him on a winning program and pay him tens of millions of dollars? The nerve of the Steelers.
If anything, the Steelers should be viewing this as a revenge game. Players can come out publicly and be civil about each other but Bell quit on his team last season. He held out for a year and kept stringing his teammates along with hope he might return but never did.
Bell is enjoying his worst season as a pro since 2015. That year it took a suspension and an MCL injury to keep his stats so low. This season it just takes playing on the Jets.
