Steelers Training Camp Video: Week 2 Begins

Monday, July 30, 2007

By Dan Gigler & Ed Bouchette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Week two of the Mike Tomlin-two-a-day-torture-test begins with eyes on a pair of Willies -- Parker and Reid.

Now that he has shown he's no fluke, Willie Parker has set his sights on the Polaris of the NFL, the brightest star of the bright. They don't come any more luminous than San Diego halfback LaDainian Tomlinson, the reigning NFL Most Valuable Player after he set league records with 31 touchdowns and 186 points last season.

"I want to be better than L.T.," Parker proclaimed yesterday between the Steelers' double practices at Saint Vincent College.

"Willie Parker has a chance to be great because he's willing to identify what he needs to work on, and he's doing it," coach Mike Tomlin said. "He's doing a heck of a job."



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Meanwhile another Willie -- Willie Reid -- is back where he should have been last season, returning punts for the Steelers.

So, too, is Santonio Holmes, who did return punts last season. One player who had trouble returning punts has been booted. Ricardo Colclough, whose dropped punt against the Cincinnati Bengals in the third game of the season led to the Steelers' downfall in that game and perhaps to their season, is no longer a candidate.

Colclough had been part of the handful of players returning punts during the incessant special teams practices through the first week of training camp. Once Holmes became healthy enough to practice, he bumped Colclough from the rotation.