Chris Adamski stories, Page 136

James Conner again was a limited participant at practice Thursday, he confirmed. But it wasn’t for reasons of preparing for the Pittsburgh Steelers game Sunday. Conner is getting his work in, he said, but not at the expense of the running backs who are part of the gameplan for the...

Banned from the Pittsburgh Steelers practice facility during his NFL-imposed suspension, Maurkice Pouncey sought other, lower-profile venues to keep in shape over the past 2 ½ weeks. “I was at Planet Fitness and LA Fitness running and talking to people,” the All-Pro center said Wednesday, the day he returned to...

A day after being awarded a game ball for a game in which he did not play, Maurkice Pouncey is back with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The All-Pro center was activated Monday after serving a two-game suspension for his role in the Steelers’ on-field melee Nov. 14 with the Cleveland Browns....

For the second consecutive week, Benny Snell was a central figure in closing out a Pittsburgh Steelers victory. Snell had 55 rushing yards in the second half of Sunday’s 20-13 win against the Cleveland Browns, including 51 on 10 carries after his touchdown gave the Steelers the lead. “He is...

Joe Haden dropped two potential game-sealing interceptions last week. He spent time at practice making sure it wouldn’t happen again. It paid off — and against his former team of seven years, too. Haden’s interception of Baker Mayfield with 1 minute, 6 seconds to play ended the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 20-13...

Of the “Pittsburgh started it” T-shirt Freddie Kitchens wore in public less than 48 hours before playing the Pittsburgh Steelers, guard David DeCastro had one question for the Cleveland Browns coach. “What are you thinking?” DeCastro said after his team beat the Browns, 20-13, Sunday. While DeCastro was asking that...

With a Super Bowl ring to his credit, job security and a 20-4-1 career record against the Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin doesn’t have many reasons to be envious of Cleveland Browns coach Freddie Kitchens. Seven words Kitchens said during a conference call with Pittsburgh media this week certainly...

1. Nip and Duck In the equivalent of two NFL regular-season games, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Devlin Hodges has shown competency as an NFL quarterback. Cut through all the traditional numbers and the subjective analysis, and arguably the most objective measures for evaluating player performance come from footballoutsiders.com. The formulas for...

When the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns meet Sunday at Heinz Field, it will have been only 17 days since they last played. Just don’t expect this game to start like that one finished. “I don’t feel like it would,” Steelers linebacker Bud Dupree said, referring to the skirmish that...

The Pittsburgh Steelers have what they consider to be three starting inside linebackers. The division of labor at that position has proven to vary from week to week. Over the past four games, veteran Mark Barron and rookie Devin Bush twice had the most defensive snaps played among the team’s...

Nick Chubb had more than 5,000 yards from scrimmage, including 4,769 rushing yards at Georgia. That he is the SEC’s No. 2 all-time leading rusher comes as no surprise to Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. “It seems like he was at Georgia forever,” Tomlin said, “and he did it for a...

Talk to any of Devlin Hodges’ current or former teammates or coaches — or even to Hodges himself — and they likely will say one of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ new starting quarterback’s greatest strengths is he plays fearlessly and with nothing to lose. Talk to Mike Tomlin this week, though,...

CINCINNATI — The Pittsburgh Steelers induced a fumble on the opening kickoff Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium. They got another on the next possession and an unofficial one in the third quarter (overturned by a penalty) before going for the kill shot with two game-sealing fumble recoveries in the fourth...