Chris Adamski stories, Page 114

Taking advantage of a new rule for the first time, the Pittsburgh Steelers announced Saturday that they are elevating Trey Edmunds from their practice squad to the active roster for Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles. The new collective bargaining agreement signed this past spring allows teams to deploy up...

1. Easy go so far The Pittsburgh Steelers are undefeated through three games, but their opponents are a combined 1-11 so far in 2020. The more advanced metrics support that the Steelers’ schedule has been the easiest thus far in the NFL. By measure of “net success,” defined as the...

Only nine players in the NFL have more rushing touchdowns. Only six quarterbacks have more rushing yards. Particularly in their two most recent games, the Philadelphia Eagles have been unafraid to use quarterback Carson Wentz as a runner. “They are capable and willing to run Wentz, particularly in those situational...

Crisis averted for the Pittsburgh Steelers. T.J. Watt, one of the NFL’s best defensive players, returned to practice Friday after missing Thursday’s session because of a knee injury. “I feel great,” Watt said during a video conference call with media Friday afternoon. “Practiced well today. I was flying around, and...

Vance McDonald is annoyed, but not about his diminished role in the Pittsburgh Steelers offense. The veteran tight end is OK with ceding snaps, targets and receptions to free-agent signee Eric Ebron. What he’s not OK with is the team’s season being disrupted by a coronavirus outbreak that was no...

The first practice report of Week 5 looks a lot like the past few weeks for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Special teamers Derek Watt (hamstring) and Marcus Allen (foot) did not participate in Wednesday’s practice, leaving their statuses in doubt for Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles. But the six other...

Only two of the other 66 players on the Philadelphia Eagles’ active roster or injured lists are shorter than Avonte Maddox. Just three weigh less. But that doesn’t mean the “little” former Pitt standout hasn’t made a big impression on the only NFL team he has known over the past...

He broke the Pittsburgh Steelers’ record for longest touchdown reception. Then, he broke it again before his 22nd birthday. So, it might be odd to affix a label to JuJu Smith-Schuster as … possession receiver? Yet, to this point of the 2020 season, the Steelers appear to be using Smith-Schuster...

In this election year, perhaps there is no better pair of running mates on the Pittsburgh Steelers than outside linebackers T.J. Watt and Bud Dupree. In the minds of most, including those who have a say in the NFL’s defensive player of the month and year honors, it’s Watt who...

During the Pittsburgh Steelers’ most recent game, the skill-position offensive player who played the most wasn’t former Pro Bowlers JuJu Smith-Schuster or James Conner. It wasn’t $12 million free-agent signee Eric Ebron, either. It was a rookie, Chase Claypool. Claypool played 61 of the Steelers’ 80 offensive snaps during a...

The NFL announced the plans for the postponed Pittsburgh Steelers game for this weekend, and its contingency went the most expected route. The Steelers will play the Tennessee Titans on Oct. 25, three weeks to the day after the game was originally scheduled to be played before multiple Titans players...

Parking lots and highways turned into ice rinks and speedskating tracks on a January weekend almost four years ago in America’s Heartland. Eleven years earlier, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ night-before-game meetings were conducted by flashlight at a blacked-out hotel near Miami as wind gusts bent palm trees outside. Although Hurricane Jeanne...

Ryan Switzer has found a new NFL home, and it’s as close to Pittsburgh as you can get. Released by the Pittsburgh Steelers in their final preseason roster cuts, Switzer was signed to the practice squad of the Cleveland Browns on Thursday. Switzer spent the past two seasons as a...

For the second time in three regular-season calendar months, T.J. Watt was judged to be the best defensive player in the AFC. The Pittsburgh Steelers edge rusher was announced Thursday as the recipient of that honor for September. Through three weeks of the NFL season, Watt is tied for the...

They faced a former Pro Bowl running back during each of the first three weeks of the season, and the Pittsburgh Steelers emerged with the NFL’s No. 1 rushing defense. But in Week 4, the Steelers’ defense is faced with its biggest challenge yet. Literally. The 6-foot-3, 247-pound Derrick Henry...

Long before he became an NFL All Pro or won three Super Bowl rings or even became an NFL starter — and certainly long before he became head coach of the Tennessee Titans — Mike Vrabel was a draft pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Long remembered and known now for...

Last season, only four Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers or tight ends caught touchdown passes. This season, it took only three games to eclipse that mark. Furthermore, in 2019 only four Steelers wide receivers or tight ends were targeted by an average of at least two passes per game. This season,...

The Tennessee Titans might be forced to play the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday without the benefit of a practice in the week leading up to it. Some have suggested this puts the Titans at an unfair disadvantage, but Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger sent a subtle yet unmistakable message for his...

Two weeks after being the lone Pittsburgh Steelers player to have an alternate name on the back of his helmet, offensive tackle Alejandro Villanueva on Monday explained why he chose to honor Alwyn Cashe and not Antwon Rose Jr. “I felt that my decision to honor Sergeant First Class Alwyn...

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ running game, at times, has been mediocre through the first three weeks of the 2020 season. But, on Sunday, they made it 3-for-3 when it comes to being great when it was most needed. For the third consecutive game, the Steelers got a strong rushing effort during...