Returner has been returned

I found a nice article for you guys to look at and share your opinions on.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08123/878671-100.stm

Well we signed another guy.

Rookie signs

The Steelers signed another rookie wide receiver to take the spot of Purdue's Doren Bryant, who was released Friday after failing his physical Thursday.

Kevin Marion (5-10, 168) caught 44 passes for 485 yards and one touchdown in his college career at Wake Forest, including 18 for 192 yards as a senior in 2007. He was not drafted last weekend.

But one way or another it would be nice to find a guy on the roster to handle kicks, and I don't mean an unproven rookie or a washed up free agent...  Yeah I'm looking at you Willie Reid.

For reals....

During last year's offseason, I spent alot of time on these forums talking up Willie Reid-- he had Deion Sanders-like numbers in college returning kicks and even had a 1000+ yard season from just kick returns alone!

Once the preseason started, a lot of folks on here were bashing him left and right, and I kept telling them to just wait and give him a chance....well, after five weeks of preseason play, he looked absolutely awful back there, and I had not an inch left to stand on.

Yeah, I'd love to see Reid get the kick return duties under control, but if not, the Steelers need to address our problem of turning the other teams' punts into a forty yard forward pass into our red zone.  I leave hand-grip prints on my football chair everytime our kick-return team takes the field.

yeah steel platoon, i did the same thing.  I spent all last offseason hyping up Willie Reid coming into last season.  a friend of mine is a huge FSU fan and i always end up watching FSU games and loved willie reid in college.  I was so excited when we drafted him.....until last year... he was so bad. 

we also got that Jeremy Bloom kid from colorado who is that skiier from the olympics.  he was cut by the Eagles but i think we resigned him.  so it looks like for punt returns it will be , bloom, reid, moore, and probably a DB like gay back there too.  But either way, our special teams are a joke, our coverage is a joke, and returns are a joke.  i almost wish that we would just have touch backs and fair catches

Ehawk,

Bloom wont make the first cut - The Eagles had nobody in their return game - just like us - and this kid could not stick...  

enjoy,

bb

yeah i am not a big fan of bloom, but hey who knows, he was decent in college and maybe needed a year under his belt to get his feet wet.  as far as i am concerned, we can bring in 18 punt returners and then pick the best.

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"It has been reported that due to personality issues and for not showing up to mini-camp, Dorien has been released from the Pittsburgh Steelers"

It sounds like he was probably not taking authority very well.