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Steelers’ Mike Tomlin, Kevin Colbert: backup centers to benefit most from bigger rosters
The new collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and its players union expanded roster sizes from 53 to 55 per team. It upped active gameday squads by two, as well, to 48. Time will tell how teams fill those spots. But if the Pittsburgh Steelers coach and general manager are...
Despite ‘feeling good’ about Steelers’ QBs, Kevin Colbert won’t rule out drafting oneVideo
While he reiterated the Pittsburgh Steelers “felt good” about Ben Roethlisberger’s health and expressed satisfaction in Mason Rudolph as a backup, general manager Kevin Colbert did not rule out selecting another quarterback in the NFL draft later this week. “If any pick makes sense at any time, then of course...
After investing 2 recent first-round picks at safety, Steelers likely to look elsewhere earlyVideo
Based on their record last season, the Pittsburgh Steelers were slotted as the No. 18 pick of the first round of the 2020 draft. Though the league’s annual selection meeting begins Thursday, the Steelers are already content with what that draft capital will reap — a versatile, athletic playmaker of...
Steelers’ evolution at inside linebacker could include additions in NFL DraftVideo
About this time in 2019, the Pittsburgh Steelers were finishing up an eight-month process of spending four draft picks and $13.45 million in guaranteed money into fortifying the inside linebacker position. A year after those investments, the Steelers still seem to have work to do at the position. The release...
With Big Ben at 38, history shows older NFL QBs can thrive, but drop-off can come quickly
Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre and John Elway made the Pro Bowl and won at least one playoff game during their age-38 seasons as NFL quarterbacks. Elway guided a team to a Super Bowl title as a 38-year-old. Brady pulled that trick at 39 and again at...
With momentum lost, Penguins, NHL teams would start from scratch if play resumes
In the moments after their victory against New Jersey Devils on March 10, an overriding theme expressed by the Pittsburgh Penguins was a desire to ride the goodwill from the road win to serve as a springboard for a stretch run into the postseason. “Hopefully, we use this as a...
Ben Roethlisberger post-surgery: ‘This is not the end for me. This is not how I’m going out’Video
Helplessly watching his teammates for the final 14½ games of last season was difficult, Ben Roethlisberger acknowledged during a satellite radio interview Thursday, but what he saw out of the Pittsburgh Steelers defense reinvigorated Roethlisberger to come back at his best in 2020. “I am excited to come back,” Roethlisberger...
Steelers favored in 10 of 16 games in preseason betting linesVideo
It’s almost five months in advance of when the NFL season is supposed to begin, if it begins at all with the nation battling the novel coronavirus. But already, sportsbooks allow patrons to bet each of the season’s games. While the schedule by date has not been released, wagering on...
With Steelers candidates to deal on draft day, ex-NFL executives discuss strategies
Next week’s NFL draft is unlike any other over the past century for the Pittsburgh Steelers — and not just because of its virtual nature. After trading away their first- and third-round picks in separate deals for Devin Bush and Minkah Fitzpatrick, the Steelers own just one pick over the...
Penguins sign former 7th-round pick William Reilly to entry-level contractVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced the signing of their seventh-round pick from three years ago, agreeing to a two-year, entry-level deal with defenseman William Reilly. The 6-foot-2, 197-pound Reilly, a right-handed shot, recently completed his senior season at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The 22-year-old Toronto native led the Engineers in plus/minus...
Penguins’ Kris Letang practiced social distancing long before most were
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf did not start issuing orders related to coronavirus-abating measures until mid-March. Kris Letang was practicing social distancing and other covid-19 prevention tactics two weeks before that, when the Pittsburgh Penguins were on their annual California swing through Los Angeles, Anaheim and San Jose. “We’d been following...
Kris Letang approaching the NHL covid-19 break as if it’s the Penguins offseasonVideo
It will be one year ago to the day on Thursday that the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2019 offseason began. This year at the same time, the Penguins are likewise won’t be playing. This time, it’s the coronavirus pandemic and not a dud of a first-round series that has resulted in their...
A QB with Steelers’ 1st pick? ESPN’s Mel Kiper projects team will draft Jalen HurtsVideo
It’s mock draft season — and with no “real” sports seasons going on, NFL Draft projections are arguably getting more publicity than ever. No one’s mock drafts get more play than Mel Kiper’s, either. And Kiper has quite the eyebrow-raising projection for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first pick in next week’s...
NHL Network to air entire 2017 Penguins-Predators Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday
To fill the void of no live sports in recent weeks, networks have provided Pittsburgh Penguins fans the opportunity to re-live the 2009 and 2016 Stanley Cup runs. Tuesday, they’ll get a chance to turn the clock to 2017. The NHL Network is devoting almost 12 hours of broadcast time...
Pirates’ Roberto Clemente game-used bat, Honus Wagner rookie card up for auction
Pittsburgh Pirates fans will have an opportunity to own some rare prized team memorabilia – if they have about six figures worth of disposable cash lying around. A 1959 Roberto Clemente game-used bat and a 1902 Honus Wagner rookie card are up for auction at robertedwardauctions.com. According to a release...
Mike Tomlin spends long days on phone ‘talking football’ with Steelers staffVideo
These days, Kiya Tomlin can hear her husband’s familiar, booming voice coming from out of their home office. “I don’t know what they are talking about,” the wife of Mike Tomlin said, while chuckling, by phone this week, “but all I know is just that they just talk soooooo much...
Kiya Tomlin, wife of Steelers coach, converts fashion business into mask-making operationVideo
Kiya Tomlin kept her four-person staff on payroll after her Etna-based fashion retailer was ordered to close as part of the state’s social-distancing directive. The wife of Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, she was forced to abandon production of her spring collection, and decided to sell her existing inventory at...
5 Penguins among best centers of past 53 years in NHL.com listVideo
To fill space and provide content during the suspension of its season, the NHL is releasing top-16 lists on its official website. It should come as no surprise for an organization so synonymous with scoring that the Pittsburgh Penguins are well represented on the list of the game’s best centers...
Bryan Rust content if suspension of season costs him milestone for PenguinsVideo
Despite missing the first 11 games of the season because of a hand injury, Bryan Rust blew past his career high for points Jan. 14. During the Pittsburgh Penguins’ next game three days later, he established a personal best for goals. Each occurred before the All-Star break, and Rust kept...
Steelers-Cowboys Hall of Fame Game still set to go on as scheduledVideo
Keep those plans for that early-August two-hour drive northwest, Pittsburgh. For now. The preseason-opening Hall of Fame Game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys is still on, a spokesperson for the Pro Football Hall of Fame said Thursday in an email to the Tribune-Review. As it has been every...
North Huntingdon’s Austen Swankler on NHL Central Scouting draft list
The NHL draft, like the rest of the sports world, remains in limbo. But the league’s official internal scouting service has released its final rankings in advance of it. And local product Austen Swankler is on the list. Swankler, a North Huntingdon native, came in at No. 200 in the...
Steelers’ T.J. Watt, Rams’ Aaron Donald among favorites to win defensive player of yearVideo
Four Pittsburgh Steelers are among the more than six dozen names that a prominent betting site have named as potential candidates for 2020 NFL defensive player of the year. The list of more than six dozen names is headed by a Pitt alumnus. Penn Hills High School graduate Aaron Donald...
Penguins Foundation distributes 500 backpacks of supplies for schooling at home
Families who lack educational resources in their homes during this school-from-home period are the target of a donation from the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation, the team announced Wednesday. The organization’s charitable arm is donating school supplies filling 500 backpacks — 200 each to State Police barracks in Allegheny and Somerset counties...
Penguins’ Bryan Rust settles into routine of working out, board games, street hockeyVideo
Hockey players are famously routine-oriented. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise Bryan Rust has been drawn to a daily schedule even during these uncertain times of stay-at-home orders. “I get up, usually have a little bit of a slow morning and usually have a coffee, hang out a little...
Penguins’ Zach Aston-Reese moves in with Bryan Rust, wifeVideo
Take a nationwide lockdown headed into its fourth week, the suburban house of a hockey player and his wife, add her brother, his teammate and three dogs. “My wife has been good with it — a house full of boys,” Bryan Rust said Tuesday. “But she has been awesome.” Rust...
