"You look at the tape, he offers a change of pace to our room."
Eddie Faulkner, the Steelers' running backs coach, was describing Anthony McFarland, the team's fourth-round pick out of Maryland this past weekend in the NFL Draft. And he was guilty, in that moment, of gross understatement.
This, my friends, is some of the tape Faulkner figuratively invited us to watch:
I know, highlights are highlights. If one splices hard enough, one could whip up an eye-catching collage of Donte Moncrief's 2019 highlights, at least through the miracle of CGI.
But what's up there, specifically one aspect of it, can't get conjured up: McFarland moves faster than humans are meant to move.
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