Chris Adamski stories, Page 140
Steelers’ T.J. Watt, Cameron Heyward, Minkah Fitzpatrick named all-NFL
The Pittsburgh Steelers defense continues to rack up the accolades. Three Steelers players were named to the Professional Football Writers of America all-NFL team announced Monday. Similar to the AP All-Pro teams announced earlier this month, all three were on the defense. T.J. Watt (outside linebacker), Cameron Heyward (defensive tackle)...
Who are ex-Steelers Troy Polamalu, Alan Faneca up against to make the Hall of Fame?
News broke Saturday night that former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of the one-time-only Centennial Class in conjunction with the NFL’s 100th anniversary. But will the Steelers get more representation for the Class of 2020 this summer in Canton,...
RB Kerrith Whyte shows worth to Steelers sought him, but will he be back in 2020?Video
The first time Kerrith Whyte carried the ball in an NFL regular-season game, he showed burst and ran 21 yards. It was the longest run of his rookie season, but it provided a glimpse of what Whyte can provide if deployed under the right circumstances. It also provided enough justification...
From big-time Alabama recruit to the AAF to the Steelers, J.C. Hassenauer carving out role
Did a season that went from Iron to Steel provide J.C. Hassenauer with enough mettle to make it over the long term in the NFL? An interior offensive lineman who was part of a national championship team at Alabama, Hassenauer began last year as property of the Alliance of American...
Steelers sign former LSU safety John Battle to reserve/future contractVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers added another defensive back to their offseason roster, announcing the signing of safety John Battle to a reserve/future contract Thursday. Battle was a two-year starter at LSU, posting four interceptions, two forced fumbles and 52 tackles over 22 games those seasons. The 6-foot, 201-pound Battle was signed...
Tight end Nick Vannett believes he showed Steelers enough to return to teamVideo
Five days after he arrived in Pittsburgh, Nick Vannett was in the starting lineup for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played more than three-quarters of the offensive snaps Sept. 30, not only playing as an in-line tight end but also going in motion, lining up in the backfield and out wide....
Steelers add prolific former University of Buffalo WR to offseason roster
The Pittsburgh Steelers continued to bolster their offseason roster, adding a big and productive former college wide receiver Wednesday. Anthony Johnson was signed to a reserve/future deal. The 6-foot-2, 209-pound Johnson had 133 catches for 2,367 yards and 25 touchdowns in two seasons at the University of Buffalo. He was...
Super Steelers defensive coach George Perles dies at 85
The coordinator for one of the greatest defenses in NFL history, George Perles, died Tuesday. Perles was 85 and living in East Lansing, Mich., when he died from complications of Parkinson’s Disease. Perles served on Chuck Noll’s Pittsburgh Steelers staff for 11 years, the greatest decadelong span in team history....
Steelers free-agent-to-be Tyler Matakevich hopes value earns him new contract
Tyler Matakevich was at his locker the day after the Pittsburgh Steelers’ season ended last week. About a quarter of the team was gathered within a few feet of him whooping it up around a finger-soccer game set up on a pool table, and Matakevich scanned the group reflectively. “All...
Steelers sign former Pitt running back Darrin HallVideo
For the third time in the past 10 weeks, former Pitt star Darrin Hall signed a contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. A 1,000-yard rusher for the Panthers in 2018, Hall signed a reserve/future deal Tuesday. Hall twice over the second half of this past season had short stints on the...
New Castle alum, Iowa junior safety Geno Stone enters NFL draftVideo
New Castle High School already has a safety playing in the NFL. Tuesday, another former Red Hurricanes safety announced his intentions to make it two. Geno Stone posted a message to his Twitter account that he was forgoing his final year of eligibility for Iowa and was declaring for the...
Ex-Ohio State QB J.T. Barrett keeps chasing NFL dream with Steelers
J.T. Barrett was one of football’s biggest stars on Saturdays. For four years, he started at quarterback for one of college football’s marquee programs, winning a national championship and playing in other major bowl games for Ohio State. But accounting for 147 touchdowns and 12,000 yards of offense in the...
Steelers’ Mike Hilton has (slightly) more leverage this offseason as restricted free agent
Mike Hilton politely made it clear last season he wanted a multiyear contract. The Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback did not get one, but after another solid season, he finds himself in a similar spot. Hilton again is not assured of getting a multiyear extension. However it plays out, Hilton said he...
2020 could play out in many ways for young Steelers OL Chuks Okorafor
Chuks Okorafor laughed. It was a question for which he had no answer. What is the Pittsburgh Steelers’ coaching staff’s plans for him for the 2020 season? “I have no idea yet where I stand in terms of whatever,” the young offensive lineman said the day after the season ended...
Steelers’ Minkah Fitzpatrick, Cameron Heyward, T.J. Watt voted 1st-team All-Pro
The Pittsburgh Steelers defense was one of the best in the NFL this season. On Friday, the league’s highest individual accolades suggested as much. Three Steelers were named first-team All-Pro by the Associated Press: Edge rusher T.J. Watt, interior lineman Cameron Heyward and safety Minkah Fitzpatrick. The Steelers were the...
Steelers 2019 offense among most impotent for franchise over past half-century
We knew the Pittsburgh Steelers offense this past season was bad. But how bad? One of the worst since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger. Without Antonio Brown (traded), Le’Veon Bell (free agency) and Ben Roethlisberger (injury in Week 2), the Steelers finished 30th in the NFL in yards (276.8 per game)...
Javon Hargrave wants to return to Steelers, seems resigned to fact he probably won’tVideo
At one point during what was a reflective Sunday for Javon Hargrave, the defensive lineman slipped up while speaking to media in the M&T Bank Stadium visitors locker room. Asked about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ outlook for 2020, Hargrave’s initial choice of pronoun spoke volumes — so much so Hargrave seemed...
No receiver drew higher rate of pass interference penalties than Steelers’ Deon CainVideo
In his short stint with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Deon Cain has shown propensity for making some big plays. And in 2019, he also showed himself particularly adept at at least one specific skill. No receiver in the NFL this season drew a higher rate of pass interference penalties from opponents...
After earning his way into Steelers lineup late in 2019, Justin Layne aims higher in 2020
When the Pittsburgh Steelers coaching staff made the conscious decision to activate cornerback Justin Layne for the final six games of the season — choosing the rookie over veteran Artie Burns — it was a landmark moment in Layne’s young NFL career. After all, it signified that the Steelers viewed...
Steelers 2020 free-agency primer: Difficult decisions loom
Instead of focusing on ways to stop and attack the New England Patriots for a playoff game this week, the Pittsburgh Steelers will turn their attention to 2020. “When you are not in the tournament,” coach Mike Tomlin said at his season-ending news conference Tuesday, “it allots you more time...
Penn State’s Marcus Allen makes 2019 Steelers debut in Week 17, looks ahead to 2020
It took until the year’s final week and the season’s final game, but Marcus Allen made his 2019 Pittsburgh Steelers season debut. The Penn State alumnus and 2018 fifth-round pick played special teams during Sunday’s season-ending loss to the Baltimore Ravens. “I just feel blessed to get another opportunity to...
Mike Tomlin: Keeping Bud Dupree ‘a priority’ for SteelersVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ season is over, and one of the first landmarks of an NFL offseason is free agency. Coach Mike Tomlin left little ambiguity regarding his feelings toward the Steelers’ highest-profile pending free agent. “He’s a priority of for us,” Tomlin said of outside linebacker Bud Dupree. No matter...
Steelers on HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’? Mike Tomlin hilariously acknowledges it’s possibleVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of five teams eligible to appear on HBO’s annual late-summer football series, “Hard Knocks.” If coach Mike Tomlin wasn’t aware of this prior, he was made aware of it during his season wrap-up news conference Tuesday at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. And the veteran, typically...
Steelers’ Devlin Hodges reflects on ‘wild’ year, doesn’t duck need for improvement
It wasn’t until teammate James Conner urged him to stop and consider the big picture of what transpired during his 2019 that quarterback Devlin Hodges took the time to fully appreciate all he’d been through and what all he’d accomplished. “It’s been wild,” Hodges said on the day after the...
Steelers’ Mason Rudolph has 6-8 week rehab after ‘procedure’ on shoulderVideo
His left arm in a black elastic sling, Mason Rudolph walked through the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room a day after a season ended with him on the injured reserve list. Rudolph said that after he injured his shoulder during the third quarter of last week’s loss at the New York...
