Chris Rainey

Christopher Jorod Rainey

Position: RB
Height: 5-8    Weight: 180 lbs.

Born: March 2, 1988
College: Florida   (school history)    (Rainey college stats)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 5th round (159th overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 1 (12193rd overall since 1950)

Other SR Links: College Football at Sports-Reference.com

• 5/19 Steel Curtain Rising: Watch Tower: Analyzing Press Coverage of the Steelers 2013 Draft: The 2013 NFL Draft is in the history books. The Pittsburgh Steelers 2013 Draft Class has been revealed, and Shamarko Thomas is...

• 4/13 Steel Curtain Rising: The Pros and Cons of Letting Emmanuel Sanders Defect to the Patriots: The Pittsburgh Steelers have a decision to make on wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders.As Steelers Nation now knows, after one false...
• 4/5 Steel Curtain Rising: Alameda Ta'amu Pleads Guilty, Tries to Make Amends: Pittsburgh Steelers reserve nose tackle Alameda Ta’amu pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of reckless endangerment, resisting...

• 2/24 FootballPerspective.com: Projecting Trent Richardson and Alfred Morris, a year later: In the pre-season, I wrote three pieces on Cleveland Browns rookie Trent Richardson.  As part of a thought experiment, I wondered...
• 2/6 Bolt Beat: The Chopping Block: San Diego Chargers Players That Could Be Released: Some heads have already been rolling around the league. The Detroit Lions have released Titus Young, Kyle Vanden Bosch and Stephen...
• 2/2 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Hire Danny Smith as New Special Teams Coach: The Steelers have hired Danny Smith to be their special teams coach for the 2013 season. Smith, 59, is from Pittsburgh and was...

• 1/19 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Nation Rooting Guide to the AFC and NFC Championships: 2013 has not started off well for Black and Gold. The 2012 Steelers never even made it to the playoffs and before they could even...
• 1/10 SideLion Report: Pittsburgh Steelers Waive Chris Rainey, Could He Replace Jahvid Best?: The Detroit Lions made the mistake of counting on Jahvid Best to return from the concussion he sustained in October of 2011 to...
• 1/10 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Waive Chris Rainey -- Are They Guilty of a Doublestandard?: Already reeling from a disappointing and decidedly mediocre 8-8 record, the Pittsburgh Steelers got another jolt in the form a...
• 1/10 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Suspend Chris Rainey - Are They Guilty of a Double Standard?: Already reeling from a disappointing and decidedly mediocre 8-8 record, the Pittsburgh Steelers got another jolt in the form a...
• 1/2 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Report Card vs. Browns @ Heinz Field: Taken from the grade book of is reminded of Wheaton High School’s old motto “Attenders are Achievers” and is aghast at...

• 12/19 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Report Card vs. Cowboys @ Jerry's World: Taken from the grade book of a teacher who is wondering if what once seemed to be his star pupil is actually underachieving or...
• 12/11 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Report Card vs. Chargers @ Heinz Field: Taken from the grade book who, as a second semester junior, decided to blow off studying for his open book open note final in...
• 12/9 Steel Curtain Rising: Chargers Shock Steelers 34-24: The Pittsburgh Steelers entered NFL week 14 riding high. The Steelers weren’t “supposed” to beat Ravens, and that victory...
• 12/3 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: The Chris Rainey Effect : In every game there are one or two plays that stick out in your mind as impact plays even if they don't directly result in points...
• 12/3 Steel Curtain Rising: Batch, Steelers Roll Over Ravens in Their Own Roost, 23-20: Since 2000 the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens have tested each other, often times with the AFC North crown in the balance...
• 12/2 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Steelers Game 12 Recap - Steelers 23, Ravens 20: Coming into the game the Steelers were missing their top two quarterbacks and had an offensive line that made you fear for the...

• 11/27 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Report Card vs. Browns @ Cleveland Stadium: Taken from the grade book of a teacher who is watching one half of the class fail its written test horribly, while the other half...
• 11/26 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Steelers Game 11 Recap - Browns 20, Steelers 14: Typically a Browns/Steelers game goes one of two ways: 1) The Steelers dominate the game to the point that the second half doesn't...
• 11/25 Steel Curtain Rising: Snake Bitten Steelers Self Destruct vs. Browns, Lose 20-16: If nothing else, the 2012 Pittsburgh Steelers embrace symmetry.For two straight weeks an understaffed Steelers squad has jumped...
• 11/20 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Report Card vs. Ravens @ Heinz Field: Taken from the grade book of a teacher who sees a pupil with a performance arch that is startingly familiar to the one he saw...
• 11/6 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Upset New York Giants 24-17 @ the Metlife Stadium: The Pittsburgh Steelers started 2012, in a word, slowly to the tune of letting three fourth  quarter leads slip away as Steelers...
• 11/6 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Ganan Giants, Manning de Nueva York: Los Steelers hicieron padecer al menor de los ManningLa victoria de hoy se construyó en espacio y en tiempo: desde el fondo del...
• 11/5 Throw the Challenge Flag: Week Nine: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New York Giants Reaction: Do you know what the worst thing is about games in which officials royally mess things up? It isn't that it can potentially effect...
• 11/1 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Report Card vs. Redskins @ Heinz Field: Taken from the grade book of a teacher whose now seen his star pupil live up to expectations two weeks in a row, here goes the...

• 10/27 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Signal Special Teams Shake Up, Activate Cromartie-Smith: With Maurkice Pouncey returning to the line up, the Steelers waived offensive lineman John Malecki. So much was expected, just...
• 10/24 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Report Card vs. Bengals @ Paul Brown Stadium: From the grade book of a teacher who is glad to see his star pupil finally passed one of those standardized tests which had bedeviled...
• 10/23 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Reverse 4th Quarter Meltdown Trend to Defeat Bengals: It was now or never time for the 2012 Pittsburgh Steelers.The Pittsburgh Steelers arrived Paul Brown Stadium Sunday night as a...
• 10/22 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Steelers Game 6 Recap - Steelers 24, Bengals 17: If you were listening to sports talk radio today (I was) or reading about the Steelers and Bengals game online (I did) then you...
• 10/22 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Defeat Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium: My, what a difference 11 days makes, doesn't it? When we last left our beloved Pittsburgh Steelers they we licking their wounds...
• 10/21 Stripe Hype: Steelers @ Bengals: First-Half Recap: After a promising opening drive by the Steelers offense, a drop on 3rd-and-9 at the CIN 24 by Mike Wallace leads to a Shaun Suisham...
• 10/18 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Can't Stop Tripping Over Themselves. Literally: The Pittsburgh Steelers are tripping over each other. One might be tempted to apply that metaphor to the team’s three 4th quarter...

• 9/21 Throw the Challenge Flag: Week Two: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New York Jets Recap: On the board for 2012. It was a tale of two halves in this game. The first half gave every indication that the Steelers were going...
• 9/21 Throw the Challenge Flag: Week Two: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New York Jets Preview: What did we learn from week one? There were a lot of unknowns coming into the loss against the Denver Broncos. We learned that...

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