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The Steelers have decided to drop the Dookie.Najeh Davenport, the team's second-leading rusher last season, has been released, NFL.com's Adam Schefter is reporting.
Schefter and Pro Football Talk had previously reported that the Steelers were shopping to trade Davenport, but not surprisingly, no team was willing to send even a conditional draft pick to Pittsburgh for a backup tailback. Right now, Ron Dayne, Shaun Alexander, Kevin Jones and Travis Henry are all available as free agents, so it would have made no sense for someone to spend a pick on Davenport--who the Steelers picked up when the Packers waived him two years ago. Nothing Davenport has done in the past two years has really removed him from being that guy who's not that far from being waived at any point. The reality if that running backs, especially backup backs, don't have much job security.
.The reality is that Davenport didn't really fit on the 2008 roster. Willie Parker is the starter, first-round pick Rashard Mendenhall will replace Davenport as the primary backup, Mewelde Moore will be the third-down back, and second-year pro Gary Russell will potentially be the No. 3 back and/or a goal line/short-yardage option. With fullback Carey Davis also able to play as a tailback in a pinch, Pittsburgh didn't really need Davenport, even if he was only going to cost $1 million. And Davenport, the U's most famous closet dumper, didn't help his chances when he was charged in a domestic dispute.
Davenport did have a couple of highlights as a Steeler--he rushed for 123 yards while filling in for the injured Parker during Week 16 last year, and he had a 39-yard touchdown against the 49ers in 2007 and a 48-yard run against the Chiefs in 2006, but Pittsburgh will be in much better shape at running back with Mendenhall now on the roster. And unless Davenport could have made the conversion to fullback, he didn't have much of a role with the team this year
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