Former Football Standout Flashes New Skills in the NFL

LATROBE -- The play was similar to the many Roosevelt Nix has made for the Pittsburgh Steelers here at St. Vincent College.

Curl from the slot ... into the end zone ... linebacker on his back ... hard, low throw ... snaring pluck for the score.

Nix made a difficult play look easy and therefore received little fanfare.

But when a fullback -- particularly a fullback who never played offense through high school and college, a fullback who played defensive tackle! -- makes one catch after another just like it, one can't help but ask questions about those soft hands.

"Great hands," said his position coach, James Saxon.

Did Saxon know about this last year? After the Steelers had picked Nix up off the street and wondered whether he should play offense or defense?

"Nobody did," Saxon said. "But the guy's an athlete, and that's a credit to him."

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