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The Steelers won’t have running back Le’Veon Bell in the lineup for the first two games of the season as he serves his suspension for last year’s DUI, but he’ll be worth the wait if Bell’s accurate in his predictions for this season.

Bell is coming off a year that saw him run for 1,364 yards while catching 83 passes, leading many to call it a breakout season for the 2013 second-round pick. Bell doesn’t see it that way, however.

“I look at it as me just getting started,” Bell said, via ESPN.com “I still feel like I can do a lot of things better. Last year wasn’t even close to me being my best.”

Bell said he’s watched tape from last season and feels like he was moving in “slow motion” compared to the “quicker, a lot more explosive” player he believes that he is this season after cutting weight and body fat over the offseason. It’s the kind of talk we hear a lot from players in the summer and take with a grain of salt because no one’s ever come back for camp to announce that they’ve lost a step since the end of the season.

Given Bell’s leap between his first and second seasons and the overall potency of the Pittsburgh offense, this may be one to take a bit more seriously.