FanHouse Carey Davis

Steelers fans love big running backs. From Franco Harris to Frank Pollard to Barry Foster to Jerome Bettis, there's always been a place in Pittsburgh for a big bruising back who is comfortable running over a linebacker on a snowy December day for a key yard.

But since Bettis retired after Super Bowl XL, the Steelers have been lacking a back who gives out more bruises than he takes. That's why there's such an interest in fifth-round pick Frank "the Tank" Summers, a 5-foot-10, 243-pound bowling ball who won't outrun many cornerbacks, but can make a linebacker think twice about lowering his shoulder.

As he gets ready to head to camp, the Las Vegas Review-Journal caught up with the former UNLV star and found that he seems to have a pretty good idea of what to expect.

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The third quarter just wrapped up in Pittsburgh with the Steelers leading 21-10 and holding the ball on the one-foot line. The Chargers are lucky that there's still a chance for them to win this game. They took exactly one offensive snap in the quarter, an interception by Philip Rivers, while the Steelers ran 24 offensive plays.

When Bruce Arians opted to turn to Carey Davis instead of old reliable Dan Kreider as the Steelers starting fullback, it signified a pretty significant changing of the guard. Instead of the pile-driving guard in a backfield, Davis was going to be the versatile running/pass catching threat who could also block OK, if not as well as Kreider.

Five games into the season, what has that gotten the Steelers? Six carries for 10 yards (1.7 yards) and five catches for 13 yards (2.6 yards per catch). It's the kind of opportunity that Kreider could only dream of--he has had no more than seven carries and 10 catches in any of the past five seasons, but it's not like Davis is turning those opportunities into big plays.