LeBeau was chosen for his 14-year career as a cornerback with the Detroit Lions, even though he's best known as an assistant coach, the mastermind of the zone blitz. Currently the defensive coordinator of the Pittsburgh Steelers, LeBeau singled out his players who sat in a corner of Fawcett Stadium.

``I am being inducted as a player and believe me that makes me most proud,'' LeBeau said. ``I did that for 14 years. but for the last 38 years I have been a football coach.

The 73-year-old LeBeau, the oldest coordinator in the league, admits he's best known as an assistant coach, the mastermind of the zone blitz. His Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowls in 2006 and 2009.

The Steelers bused in from training camp to watch his induction Saturday. LeBeau singled out their presence at Fawcett Stadium as ``just about the highest compliment ever paid to me in my life.''Copyright © 2

Anthony Allen moves over from A-back to the featured B-back position in coach Paul Johnson's spread option offense, and he could be even more of a threat than Dwyer, now a rookie with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Allen averaged 9.7 yard per carry last season and is convinced that figure doesn't have to decline despite the switch and a heavier workload.

``Who says I can't match it,'' asked the speedy 229-pound senior, breaking into a smile.

Allen had a

LeBeau, who retired in 1972 from the Detroit Lions, expected his current players - he's the renowned defensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers - to bus in from training camp.

Among Grimm's ex-teammates from the Redskins who are in the hall and were announced as being on hand were Art Monk and Darrell Green. For Randle, it was former Vikings guard Randall McDaniel and tackle Gary Zimmerma

RENTON, Wash. (AP) -NFL referee Bill Leavy has reopened a Seahawks' wound that won't close by acknowledging he made mistakes in Seattle's disputed, 2006 Super Bowl loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The veteran official began an annual rules interpretation session with the Seattle media on Friday by bringing up the sore subject without being asked.

Leavy says he ``kicked two calls in the fourth quarter'' and ``impacted the game, and as an official you never want to do that.''

The veteran official of 15 NFL

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) -The Pittsburgh Steelers' defense knew it was getting old. But this old? Not yet.

Due to a computer error, the Steelers' media guide bumps up a number of players' ages by four years each. James Farrior is listed at 39, Aaron Smith at 38, James Harrison at 36, Larry Foote and Ryan Clark at 34, Troy Polamalu at 33.

Losing fourth-quarter leads five times in the same season, as the Steelers did last season while going 9-7 and missing the playoffs, is enough to age any defense. Only not quite t

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) -The Pittsburgh Steelers are closing training camp to the public on Saturday so they can attend defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau's induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The Steelers will hold a morning practice that will be closed to spectators, then board buses for the evening ceremony in Canton, Ohio. The team will return that night and plans to practice Sunday afternoon, a workout that will be open to the public.

LeBeau, considered one of the NFL's most innovative defensive coa

WASHINGTON (AP) -Nolan Harrison has been hired by the NFL Players Association as senior director of former player services.

Harrison played 10 seasons in the NFL and was the player representative for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1998-2000. He also served on the NFLPA's executive committee from 2000-02.

He currently is serving his second three-year term on the NFLPA former players board of directors, is chairman of the health committee, and has served as president of the Phoenix chapter of the NFL Former Pla

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) -James Farrior and Larry Foote are close friends who teamed up as the inside linebackers on the Pittsburgh Steelers' last two Super Bowl-winning teams.

Foote loosens up the locker room with his nonstop chattering and incessant arguing on any subject. Farrior is the defense's acknowledged leader, a reliable perfectionist who's always in the right position to make a tackle or shut down a play.

Last season changed everything. Foote was miserable losing in Detroit, relocating there only so he

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) -Ben Roethlisberger took snaps only with the starters, alternating with Byron Leftwich, during the Pittsburgh Steelers' first practice of training camp.

Roethlisberger, who will be suspended for at least the first four games of the season, ran the opening series of plays with the starting unit during a morning practice that was closed to the public. Leftwich then ran some plays with the starters and others with backups.

Coach Mike Tomlin said Leftwich would get the majority of the training