Day 3 Afternoon Practice: Backs-on-backers, D-Line vs O-line Insider Report

For the second straight day, the D-linemen and outside linebackers took on the offensive line in a one-on-one matchup, and the O-line held its own. Max Starks, Chris Kemoeatu, Justin Hartwig and Trai Essex stopped James Harrison, Brett Keisel, Chris Hoke and Aaron Smith in succession to start the session.

In an attempt to break that trend, LaMarr Woodley clearly jumped offside, although he quickly pointed to and yapped at the offensive line.

But then he made up for it with a slick dipsy-do move on Flozell Adams where he faked outside and quickly spun inside for a clear path to the quarterback.

On his second shot against Starks, Harrison used his strength and quickness to bull-rush the back-pedaling left tackle. Starks was beaten before he even got his hands up into position.

With a decided size advantage on the trim and slim Nick Eason, Kemoeatu had him locked up and beaten off the snap.

The two quickly went again, but the results were the same.

Defensive tackle Steve McLendon went twice against Hartwig and split the reps with one stop and one sack each.

Scott Paxson, the second-year tackle from Penn State, went against Hartwig and Essex and handled both, but Hartwig got a stop in as well.

Second-year player Ziggy Hood beat Essex on consecutive snaps and Jonathan Scott on another but Adams handled Woodley by forcing him way wide on their second attempt.

Sunny Harris also had a couple nice moves to beat.......