Mendenhall WILL Play in 2012?

After all the hoopla last week that Steelers RB Rashard Mendenhall may not play at all in 2012, or ever take a snap again with the Steelers, comes this story today, which states that he may very well play this year, and may have more time in the black and gold.

Rashard Mendenhall might not have taken his final carry with the Pittsburgh Steelers after all.

In clarifying his previous remarks about the Pittsburgh running back, general manager Kevin Colbert said he does expect Mendenhall to play this season. Mendenhall, the team’s leading rusher for the past three seasons, tore his anterior cruciate ligament in the Jan. 1 regular-season finale at Cleveland.

“What I said was I never think players coming off an ACL are 100 percent for a full year. It doesn’t mean they can’t play,” Colbert told Pittsburgh reporters (via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) before the start of the NFL owners meetings. “At some point, we’ll have Rashard back. I’m confident of that.”

Colbert, though, doesn’t provide the most important detail: when he expects Mendenhall to come back. To be honest, he might not even know the exact timetable.

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