Steelers 5 things: OTAs could answer a few questions, starting at quarterback
How many quarterbacks will the Pittsburgh Steelers have when they start organized team activities Monday? Four is the likely answer now, after Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers reportedly agreed to a one-year contract. The 42-year-old quarterback missed OTAs last season by waiting until June to sign, but the timing of...
Reports: 4-time MVP Aaron Rodgers returning to Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers finally got the answer they waited months to hear. Aaron Rodgers is returning for another season with the team, ending speculation about the 42-year-old quarterback’s football future. For the past four months, Steelers owner Art Rooney II, general manager Omar Khan and coach Mike McCarthy described positive...
Steelers sign 1st-round draft pick Max Iheanachor to rookie deal
The Pittsburgh Steelers signed offensive tackle Max Iheanachor, the team’s first-round draft pick out of Arizona State. The team on Friday announced a four-year contract with Iheanachor, but financial details were not disclosed. The 6-foot-6, 321-pound lineman was the 21st overall pick in last month’s NFL Draft. Iheanachor is the...
The Steelers won’t have a bye after trip to France. Does it matter?
The Pittsburgh Steelers won’t have much time to rest after this year’s transatlantic journey, unlike the last two times they played in Europe. A year ago and in 2013, the Steelers received a bye in the week immediately after their international game, but that won’t be the case this year....
NFL selects Steelers for 1st international game in Paris, a Week 7 matchup vs. Saints
Call up Frenchy Fuqua’s “Foreign Legion” because the Pittsburgh Steelers are heading to France. They will play the New Orleans Saints this season in the first NFL game held in Paris, according to league sources. The 80,698-seat Stade de France will host the Week 7 matchup Sunday, Oct. 25. Kickoff...
Steelers sign kicker Chris Boswell to record-tying contract extension
The best long-range kicker in Pittsburgh Steelers history has another big number next to his name. Chris Boswell and the Steelers agreed to a four-year, $28 million contract extension that runs through the 2030 season, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Boswell’s $7 million per year average ties the Cowboys’ Brandon...
Steelers 1st-round pick Max Iheanachor feels right at home on right side
Rookie minicamp was all right for Max Iheanachor in more ways than one. The Pittsburgh Steelers’ first-round draft pick practiced exclusively at right tackle, and he finished the minicamp feeling rightfully pleased by his first couple of days as a pro. “It’s a blessing to be out here,” he said...
Steelers’ Mike McCarthy says 4 QBs ‘would be awesome,’ but no sign of Aaron Rodgers yet
The system of passing drills that comprise Mike McCarthy’s QB school work best with a trio of quarterbacks, the Pittsburgh Steelers coach explained Saturday at rookie minicamp. “The ideal is to have three guys,” said McCarthy, who mentioned Drew Allar, Will Howard and Mason Rudolph as forming that trio once...
Steelers sign 3 players from 2026 NFL Draft class
The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed three players from their 2026 NFL Draft class, the team announced Friday. Kick returner/wide receiver Kaden Wetjen (fourth round), defensive end Gabriel Rubio (sixth round) and safety Robert Spears-Jennings (seventh round) signed four-year deals. Financial terms of the contracts were not disclosed. The three are...
Fans can purchase former Acrisure Stadium seats removed in renovations
Pittsburgh Steelers fans can sit in Acrisure Stadium seats from the comfort of their own home. The Steelers are selling seats removed during renovations at the North Shore stadium through MeiGray, a company that deals in game-worn and game-used sports memorabilia. The team announced the agreement Friday. The price for...
‘You’re going to be special’: How Max Iheanachor went from football novice to Steelers 1st-rounder
Bobby Godinez brought a pair of size-16 cleats to a park in Torrance, Calif., to meet a future first-round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But on that day five years ago, Max Iheanachor was still a teenage basketball player who’d yet to play football. That was about to change....
Fullback Riley Nowakowski could find key role in Mike McCarthy’s ‘2-back offense’ with Steelers
Mike McCarthy designed quarterback-friendly passing attacks in both Green Bay and Dallas, but he always found room in his offense for a lowly fullback. The Pittsburgh Steelers had none on the roster until they used a Day 3 draft pick on Indiana’s Riley Nowakowski, a multi-positional player who could expand...
H.S. coach calls Steelers 2nd-round pick Germie Bernard ‘the complete package’
In the days leading up to the NFL Draft, Alabama receiver Germie Bernard heard from his agent that the Pittsburgh Steelers were interested at pick 53. So, once Day 2 of the draft got underway, family and friends gathered at his parents’ house in Las Vegas to count along with...
Steelers draft pick Dunker made name for himself as hay-bale tossing champ in Iowa
How many NFL Draft prospects could claim to be a two-time champion of the Solon Beef Days hay bale toss? Forget about any all-
conference honor or academic award. The beefiest accolade in this year’s class belonged to Gennings Dunker, a crowd favorite in Pittsburgh thanks to his audacious red-haired mullet....
Mt. Lebanon grad, 7th-round pick Eli Heidenreich could turn into chess piece for Steelers
Trying to choose one position to describe Eli Heidenreich was always futile, even as a title-winning high school player at Mt. Lebanon. Running back? Slotback? Wide receiver? Slot receiver? Wildcat quarterback? “He’s a football player,” said Bob Palko, his former high school coach. “That was the beauty of it.” The...
Mike Tomlin joins NBC as analyst, says Steelers’ veterans ‘were worthy’ of new coach
Mike Tomlin, while making his broadcasting debut Sunday, said he resigned as Pittsburgh Steelers coach in part because the team’s veteran players “were worthy” of new leadership. NBC officially announced Tomlin would be joining the network’s “Football Night in America” as a studio analyst. He was interviewed Sunday by “NBA...
Robert Spears-Jennings bio: Steelers 7th-round pick (No. 244 overall) in 2026 NFL Draft
Robert Spears-Jennings Seventh-round pick, No. 224 overall Safety, Oklahoma 6-foot-1, 205 pounds Stats: In 2025, had 59 tackles, one interception, two pass breakups and one forced fumble in 13 games (12 starts). Hometown: Broken Arrow, Okla. Tidbits: Spears-Jennings ran the second-fastest 40-yard dash time among safeties at the 2026 NFL...
Mt. Lebanon native Eli Heidenreich drafted by hometown Steelers in 7th roundVideo
Eli Heidenreich proudly tells how the U.S. Naval Academy readied him to handle stressful situations, and Saturday was surely unlike any day he’d ever had before. The Mt. Lebanon native and Navy football star heard his name called at the NFL Draft, in his hometown and by his hometown team....
6th-rounder Gabriel Rubio is 2nd generation NFL Draft pick for Steelers
Twenty-eight years after the Pittsburgh Steelers selected his father, Notre Dame defensive lineman Gabriel Rubio became a second-generation NFL Draft pick by the franchise. The Steelers drafted the 6-foot-5, 321-pound senior in the sixth round Saturday, one round earlier than his father, Angel, who was a seventh rounder in 1998....
Riley Nowakowski bio: Steelers 5th-round pick (No. 169 overall) in 2026 NFL Draft
Riley Nowakowski Fifth-round pick, No. 169 overall Fullback, Indiana 6-foot-2, 250 pounds Stats: Had 32 receptions for 387 yards and two touchdowns last season. Added two 1-yard TD runs. Hometown: Milwaukee Tidbits: Nowakowski was listed as a tight end at Indiana, but the Steelers will roster him as a fullback....
Steelers pick Iowa return specialist Kaden Wetjen in 4th round of NFL Draft
Kaden Wetjen was surprised when the Pittsburgh Steelers used a fourth-round pick on a return specialist. The Iowa senior, considered the top returner in college football, was on the golf course Saturday when he got the call. But the Steelers bolstered their special teams by selecting Wetjen with the 121st...
With 5 picks on Day 3, Steelers could target safety, tight end
The Pittsburgh Steelers have five picks remaining in this year’s NFL Draft, which concludes Saturday with rounds four to seven. They’ve already addressed many of their top needs by adding an offensive tackle, wide receiver, quarterback, cornerback and guard during the first two days. So, what might they target next?...
Daylen Everette bio: Steelers 3rd-round pick (85th overall) in 2026 NFL Draft
Daylen Everette Third-round pick, No. 85 Cornerback, Georgia 6-foot-1/196 pounds Stats: 50 tackles, one interception and a team-leading 10 pass breakups in 2025 Hometown: Norfolk, Va. Tidbits: Three-year starter … made five interceptions and 150 tackles (107 solo stops) in 55 career games (41 starts) over four seasons … Named...
Drew Allar bio: Steelers 3rd-round pick (76th overall) in 2026 NFL Draft
Drew Allar Third-round pick, No. 76 overall Quarterback, Penn State 6-foot-5, 228 pounds Stats: 7,402 career passing yards, 61 touchdowns and 13 interceptions Hometown: Medina, Ohio Tidbits: Three-year starter at Penn State. … Ranked first in school history in career completion percentage (63.2), third in touchdown passes (61) and fourth...
Steelers trade up in 2nd round, select Alabama receiver Germie BernardVideo
This time, it was the Pittsburgh Steelers who got aggressive and traded up for a wide receiver. One day after a targeted wideout got snatched away at the last minute, the Steelers moved up six spots in the second round Friday night to choose Alabama’s Germie Bernard with the 47th...
