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A highly regarded athlete made a verbal commitment to the Penn State football program Monday. He’s not projected to make it into a game for the Nittany Lions, though, until at least 2023. Mathias Barnwell, a high school freshman from Virginia, announced his intention to attend Penn State via a...

Penn State’s Micah Parsons is projected to be one of the top linebackers in college football this coming season as a junior. He also has become a sportsbook favorite to be highly coveted in next spring’s NFL Draft. Parsons had the best betting odds of any defensive player to go...

It was an on-field partnership forged in an unconventional way, at least relative to virtually every one that preceded it in Pittsburgh Steelers history. They are a pairing not put together via the draft or by way of trade. But the signings of Joe Haden and Steven Nelson have provided...

The literal room — if there ever has been an actual, brick-and-mortar, solitary meeting room devoted to each position at the facility — hasn’t been used in months. But even the Zoom calls might seem a little virtually-crowded for Pittsburgh Steelers running backs coach Eddie Faulkner these days. Counting fullback...

The stay-at-home directives of the coronavirus pandemic have caused everyone to adjust, including starting quarterbacks of top-10 college football teams. For Penn State’s Sean Clifford, that’s meant keeping his throwing arm in shape by tossing to his younger brother, a high school senior who verbally committed as a receiver to...

The coronavirus robbed him of appropriate use of his “gun” and left him without much to sling to over the past 12 weeks. But Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford still proudly plays the part. Clifford on Wednesday was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with the word “GUNSLINGER” at the top,...

Running back James Conner was the first Pittsburgh Steelers player available to speak with media since the nation has been canvassed with protests over the past week. Asked if any team meetings had discussed last week’s death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis Police Department officer, Conner...

The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best 100 players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 91: Aaron Smith That Aaron Smith was named to the Pro Bowl just once during his 13 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers almost...

He was the 10th wide receiver selected in last year’s draft, and unlike eight of the nine taken ahead of him, Diontae Johnson did not have the benefit of Power 5 conference competition. As Johnson embarked on his rookie year with the Pittsburgh Steelers, he mostly didn’t have the benefit...

True to his Type-A, hyper-analytical public persona, Mike Tomlin’s first reaction to the concept of playing games without fans was void of emotion. “The thing that I’m interested in is how it changes the game, maybe mechanically, in some ways,” Tomlin said earlier this week while speaking as a guest...

They live about 1,000 miles apart, and each remains in the midst of rehab after surgery. Oh, and there is a global pandemic affecting everything from travel to appropriate social distance. But none of those obstacles have prevented the Pittsburgh Steelers’ franchise quarterback from working with one of his top...

Think that as one of the NFL’s best defensive players that Minkah Fitzpatrick is privy to any inside info regarding what the upcoming season might look like? Think again. “I have no clue,” the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back said during a video conference call with media Tuesday. Furthermore, if the...

The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best 100 players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 98: Casey Hampton “Big Snack” rarely bit off more than he could chew. As the big man at the literal forefront of some...

Everyone has a list, particularly in these unprecedented times in which we are starved for sports content. So, when CBS Sports’ Pete Prisco compiled a listing of his top 100 NFL players, it probably didn’t register all that much for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Except when one of their best players...

Pittsburgh Steelers left tackle and Army Ranger veteran Alejandro Villanueva was featured in a video message released by The Players’ Tribune on Memorial Day. The video, titled “Something Bigger,” was released via The Players’ Tribune’s verified Twitter account. It discusses Villanueva’s journey into the military — something he calls “truly...

If the Pittsburgh Steelers conduct organized team activities, but the players are not together in performing any activities, did they really conduct the OTA’s? It is not a question for a philosophy doctoral candidate, nor is it a dystopian future of virtual-reality football. Instead, it is the reality of the...