Chris Adamski stories, Page 60
Steelers 2-a-days: Returning starter DT Montravis Adams, versatile rookie OL Spencer Anderson
Editor’s note: From the end of minicamp through the day the team reports to training camp at Saint Vincent College, the Trib will be running through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, assessing each player’s outlook for the 2023 season. The breakdown will go through the roster in mostly alphabetical order,...
Miles Boykin back to fill role in Steelers’ locker room, WR position room
Perhaps only the modeling industry can rival professional football in a sobering truth that recently struck Miles Boykin. “I was talking to somebody yesterday,” the 26-year-old Pittsburgh Steelers receiver said last week, “and I’m like, ‘I’m middle-aged in football.’ “We called (Allen Robinson) old, and he’s only 29. He’s an...
Steelers’ Gunner Olszewski on new kickoff rules: ‘People in lab coats changing our game’
At one point during Thursday on the field at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, Gunner Olszewski ran through a literal gauntlet of padded bars before a coach with a boxing glove literally threw a punch toward him. And this was a mere warm-up drill. During an unpadded practice. Three months before...
Steelers’ Dan Moore has been ‘unbelievable teammate,’ but won’t give up job without fight
Some on the outside predicted Broderick Jones would be anointed a starting job immediately. Others from afar have thought he would be a first-teamer by the start of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ minicamp. Most assumed Jones taking Dan Moore Jr.’s job at left tackle is inevitable. But now that minicamp is...
Kenny Pickett established not only as Steelers’ starter but as one of their biggest leaders
As one who might be the second-most prominent performer set to wow fans at Acrisure Stadium in 2023, Kenny Pickett is sending preemptive regrets for not being able to catch perhaps the only star that surpasses him. Because Pickett and his fiancée have plenty to plan in preparation for their...
Minor injuries plague much of the WR corps; Cody White a beneficiary of increased reps
There are 13 wide receivers on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster. Only one has a tenure with the team that predates Cody White. Paradoxically, though, only two are younger than White. “I guess they call me a vet,” White said Wednesday before cracking a smile, “but I am still one...
Steelers notes: T.J. Watt, others who missed minicamp opener return for Day 2
A day after acknowledging excused absences for star defender T.J. Watt and two other players for the opening of mandatory minicamp, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin seemed to confirm perfect attendance for Day 2 of the three-day annual June practice period. “I think we did,” Tomlin said when asked if...
Steelers minicamp notes: Joey Porter Jr. on 1st-team defense, Kenny Pickett wears new helmet
When the first of three mandatory minicamp sessions wrapped up with a two-minute drill simulation Tuesday, rookie cornerback Joey Porter Jr. was on the field with the first-team defense for what is always a spirited and competitive drill. “Just great to be out there with the ‘ones’ and all the...
T.J. Watt, Pressley Harvin, Ryan McCollum excused absences from Steelers minicamp
Two years after he pulled off the first “hold in” from Pittsburgh Steelers summer practices, T.J. Watt missed the first day of 2023 minicamp entirely. The former NFL defensive player of the year’s absence was excused by coach Mike Tomlin. Speaking Tuesday afternoon following the first of three days of...
Bethel Park, WVU alum Nick Kwiatkoski with Steelers on tryout
He went to high school about 10 miles down Route 19 from Pittsburgh and played in college another 80-minute drive or so to the south. But it took until just days after his 30th birthday for Nick Kwiatkoski to suit up for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Kwiatkoski, a veteran linebacker of...
With strong history, Steelers cornerback Patrick Peterson commands Hall of Fame respect
The 2011 Week 3 meeting between the Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks might have gone down as one of the more forgettable games in NFL history. It was a 13-10 final between a pair of non-playoff teams led by pedestrian quarterbacks (Kevin Kolb and Tarvaris Jackson) that would finish 8-8...
Converted standout college safety Tanner Muse seeks role as subpackage ILB for Steelers
Three weeks into organized team activities and after dozens of reps next to Tanner Muse in the middle of the Pittsburgh Steelers defense — and linebacking corps — Elandon Roberts was informed that Muse’s background is at safety. “Kind of crazy,” Roberts said Thursday, “because I didn’t know he played...
Steelers notes: Connor Heyward seeks to earn expanded role, Matt Rife a guest at practice
More than a week into the new NFL league year this March, Connor Heyward appeared poised to begin the second season of his NFL career as the No. 2 tight end on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ depth chart. But then, Zach Gentry re-signed. A month later, another tight end (Darnell Washington)...
Steelers report to training camp July 26; 1st of 16 open practices begin next day
Back at Saint Vincent for a 56th training camp, the Pittsburgh Steelers will report to the Unity Township campus July 26. The first of 16 practices open to the public will be held the following day, per the camp schedule released by the team Thursday. Among a dwindling number of...
Holding no hard feelings from contract nontender, James Pierre happy to remain with Steelers
Be it the advice he’s absorbed from coach Mike Tomlin or the counsel he actively sought from now-ex teammate Cameron Sutton, James Pierre is adhering to a belief that he has to go with the flow in this crazy business that is professional football. Pierre is back for a fourth...
Steelers notes: Strong attendance at OTAs among defense no coincidenceVideo
Up and down the defense, from the line to the linebackers to the secondary, starters and backups and third-teamers, veterans and young players alike, by all accounts have shown out at Pittsburgh Steelers organized team activities. With rare exception of a day or so here and there by the isolated...
Steelers notes: Allen Robinson ramped up to work in team drills, Tanner Muse makes INT
When Allen Robinson took to the practice field at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex for an 11-on-11 drill last week, it marked a milestone in his recovery from foot surgery. “It’s the first time I’ve gone up against somebody in six months,” the veteran wide receiver said Tuesday. Though he had...
Steelers sign RB Darius Hagans, OL Jarrid Williams
On the eve of the beginning of the final week of organized team activities, the Pittsburgh Steelers tweaked their roster by signing running back Darius Hagans and offensive tackle Jarrid Williams on Monday. Williams had four stints on the offseason roster and/or practice squad of the Philadelphia Eagles after going...
Savvy vets Elandon Roberts, Cole Holcomb already forging close bond as Steelers’ new ILB duo
Elandon Roberts sees some of himself when he looks at Cole Holcomb and when he hears him. A pair of football junkies, the two veteran inside linebackers have made for the perfect personality match since joining the Pittsburgh Steelers this spring. However, enough can be enough when it comes to...
Steelers 7th-round pick Spencer Anderson already showing versatility, willingness to work
He’s the forgotten pick among a draft class that so far has earned plenty of praise and impressed in the early going. Fans obsess over the likes of Broderick Jones and Darnell Washington. Glowing reports come out about Cory Trice and media hound Joey Porter Jr. Spencer Anderson is content...
Back for 2nd stint with Steelers, OLB Quincy Roche believe he’s better this time around
Quincy Roche has been through all of this before with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But that doesn’t mean these 2023 organized team activities bear much resemblance to what he encountered at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex in 2021. After all, when Roche was spending his rookie summer with the Steelers, the NFL...
Dan Moore reps at right tackle in apparent preparation for ‘swing’ tackle role with Steelers
Dan Moore Jr. has been taking some practice reps at right tackle over the first two weeks of Pittsburgh Steelers organized team activities. The Steelers’ starting left tackle the past two seasons, Moore confirmed the handful of reps after Thursday’s session at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. “Not too many reps,...
Steelers DL Renell Wren’s season over after Achilles tear
Renell Wren was taking part in an ordinary drill during on-field work as part of Phase II of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ organized team activities two weeks ago. “And literally when I got out of my stance, it felt like someone hit my ankle with a baseball bat,” Wren said Wednesday....
Steelers’ Kendrick Green back at center as career takes another turn
Kendrick Green’s star-crossed Pittsburgh Steelers career has taken another turn. Green has been repping exclusively at center over the first two weeks of organized team activities, Green confirmed after Wednesday’s session. “You just gotta do what you gotta do,” Green said from UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. “I gotta do what...
Steelers notes: James Pierre has long idolized new teammate Patrick Peterson
When soon-to-be 33-year-old Patrick Peterson was asked last week about serving as a mentor for the Pittsburgh Steelers young defensive backs, the 13-year NFL veteran focused his description on how he would relate to rookie Joey Porter Jr. Porter is the youngest Steelers cornerback — but he isn’t the only...
