Chris Adamski stories, Page 92

They didn’t lose a game Sunday, but the Pittsburgh Steelers did lose a handful of starters to injury. In addition to T.J. Watt missing all of the fourth quarter and overtime a 16-16 tie with the winless Detroit Lions, cornerback Joe Haden and the starting guard duo of Kevin Dotson...

Pittsburgh Steelers star outside linebacker T.J. Watt gingerly walked off the field during the third quarter and did not return to Sunday’s tie against the Detroit Lions. Watt suffered a hip/knee injury colliding with teammate Joe Schobert in the process of making a sack of Jared Goff late in the...

Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Zach Banner is in uniform and made his season debut Sunday against the Detroit Lions. Banner had not played in a regular-season game since the 2020 opener, during which he suffered a torn ACL. His rehab hit an apparent setback during this past training camp, and...

Heath Miller made a rare post-retirement appearance at Heinz Field last week. Perfect timing, because the Pittsburgh Steelers — at long last — are comfortable that they finally have been able to replace their former Pro Bowl tight end, who retired in February 2016. Following a couple of swings and...

Down another wide receiver because of injury, the Pittsburgh Steelers turned to their practice squad for reinforcement at the position. Three-year veteran Steven Sims was elevated to the roster for Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions, the team announced Saturday. Sims had 61 catches and five touchdowns over the past...

1. Half-and-half The Pittsburgh Steelers were expected to have one of the NFL’s best defenses. But that’s only been half true so far this season. The Steelers have been among the best on defense… in the first halves of games. Come the second half, they’ve statistically been one of the...

There were 81 batted down passes in the NFL through nine weeks of this season, according to Pro Football Focus. Teammates T.J. Watt and Cameron Heyward, by themselves, have accounted for almost 10% of them. Heyward’s five plus Watt’s three in addition to two from Chris Wormley gave the Pittsburgh...

The attrition continues on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ wide receivers depth chart. Chase Claypool will not play in Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions after sitting out the entire week’s worth of practice because of a toe injury. Claypool joins JuJu Smith-Schuster, who had season-ending shoulder surgery last month, as wide...

Despite an apparent mid-week foot injury, Pittsburgh Steelers workhorse running back Najee Harris will play in Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions. After he was listed as a limited participant at Thursday’s practice, Friday’s injury report had Harris as a full participant. Starting center Kendrick Green similarly was a Thursday...

Is 28 considered old? It’s all relative in life, and perhaps nowhere more than among the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offensive line. In the context of that inexperienced group, 28-year-old Trai Turner is a veritable pied piper of sage knowledge and insight. “We were all laughing because we were sitting on the...

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool did not practice Wednesday, a day after coach Mike Tomlin said Claypool was undergoing an MRI to evaluate a toe injury. The workout was shortened and lightened to the point it was referred to as a walkthrough, and the participation designations were estimated as...

Among the hundreds of players’ names on respective injury reports for the 32 NFL teams last week, few (if any) listed three separate ailments under the “injury” heading of the status report. Typically, the player’s name is accompanied by the one body part that has an issue preventing him from...

T.J. Watt made a significant impact on Monday night’s game – and achieved some milestones in the process for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Watt had his third career three-sack game in the win against the Chicago Bears, giving him 61 career sacks in 69 games. His two first-half takedowns of Justin...

Three months after Bill Cowher was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, his successor passed him in career victories. Mike Tomlin earned his 150th win as Pittsburgh Steelers head coach when his team defeated the Chicago Bears, 29-27, Monday night. That number carries more significance than a round...

A week after Anthony McFarland’s 2021 debut, the Pittsburgh Steelers running back was back in street clothes for a game. McFarland was announced as a healthy scratch for Monday night’s game against the Chicago Bears. The second-year speedster began the season on injured reserve after suffering a knee injury during...

After playing with just two active tight ends last week, the Pittsburgh Steelers ensured they’d have a third available to them for Monday night’s game against the Chicago Bears. Pine-Richland alumnus Kevin Rader was elevated from the practice squad, the team announced Monday afternoon. Headed into Monday, Rader’s prior NFL...

When it comes to NFL running backs, some see it as a big problem. Najee Harris, though, views it as a problem for the “little.” Does the pounding accumulated over the course of a career harm high-volume running backs? There’s a school of thought that elite runners only have so...

With the other two veteran starters at his position out longterm because of injury, Cameron Heyward is often playing alongside inexperienced players this season. Heyward is a two-time first-team NFL All Pro. To show how often, for example, Isaiahh Loudermilk is playing as a rookie, consider that Loudermilk (a fifth-round...

1. Whither the WR? Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator Keith Butler this week broached the subject of how NFL offenses have morphed over his two-decade tenure in the league. There was a gradual and significant increased emphasis put on speed and passing beginning roughly around the turn of the century. But...

The Pittsburgh Steelers finished last week’s game without a healthy kicker. They’ll enter prep for their next game with two. Chris Boswell emerged from a week of practice as cleared to play in Monday night’s home game against the Chicago Bears, per the league-mandated injury report released Saturday. Boswell was...

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and All Pro safety Minkah Fitzpatrick will play in Monday night’s game for the Pittsburgh Steelers, coach Mike Tomlin said, despite each missing practice time this week. Roethlisberger was listed as limited on the league-mandated injury report for practices on both Thursday and Friday. Fitzpatrick, Tomlin confirmed,...

His birth name is Vidauntae, but he goes by “Taco” Charlton. Either, at this point, is better than what has seemingly become a permanent additional forename: “former first-round pick.” Or worse, “bust.” The newest member of the Pittsburgh Steelers 53-man roster insists his career story isn’t complete enough yet to...

Three days after entering NFL concussion protocol, Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Chris Boswell was a limited participant at practice Thursday. Boswell endured a hard hit after releasing the ball on a fake field goal attempt during Sunday’s win at the Cleveland Browns. He did not return to that game and is...

On the day of the first Pittsburgh Steelers practice since the trade of disgruntled outside linebacker Melvin Ingram III, a prominent coach and teammate wished the veteran well. But defensive coordinator Keith Butler made clear that Ingram was never going to get his wish to surpass Alex Highsmith on the...

Moving on from one top-five rushing offense to another, the Pittsburgh Steelers defense insists it’s ready for the challenge. Eight days after limiting the Nick Chubb-led Cleveland Browns rushing offense to its third-lowest yardage production in any of its past 16 games, the Steelers next get a Chicago Bears attack...