Texans’ defense reached historic status that Steelers strived to achieve
The Houston Texans achieved a status on defense that Mike Tomlin erroneously predicted for his Pittsburgh Steelers unit in the summer. Historic. When the Steelers meet the Texans on Monday night at Acrisure Stadium in the AFC Wild-Card round, it will be the visiting team bringing a record-setting defensive unit...
Aaron Rodgers isn’t looking at Steelers future beyond Sunday’s winner-take-all finale vs. Ravens
For the second time in his 21-year career, Aaron Rodgers has a chance to lead his team into the postseason with a victory in a winner-take-all game with a division title on the line. Extending his season beyond the Pittsburgh Steelers’ regular-season finale Sunday night against the Baltimore Ravens is...
Derrick Harmon wins Joe Greene award as Steelers’ top rookie; Patrick Queen claims ‘Chief’ honors
Since 1984, the Pittsburgh Steelers annually have honored the team’s top rookie with an award named after Joe Greene, widely considered the greatest player in franchise history. Until Wednesday, the Steelers never had honored a player who, like Greene, played on the defensive line. First-round pick Derrick Harmon ended that...
Mike Tomlin not ready to think about Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers playing final NFL game
If he keeps his word and retires after the season, Aaron Rodgers will play in the final regular-season game of his 21-year career Sunday night when the Pittsburgh Steelers face the Baltimore Ravens at Acrisure Stadium. The Steelers must defeat the Ravens to win the AFC North and continue Rodgers’...
Mike Tomlin optimistic about T.J. Watt’s return for Steelers against RavensVideo
With their season on the line, the Pittsburgh Steelers could get their former NFL Defensive Player of the Year back Sunday night for a winner-take-all game against the Baltimore Ravens. Coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that outside linebacker T.J. Watt could return from a three-game absence because of a partially...
Steelers notes: Nick Herbig still upset over missed INT, wants to get win for T.J. Watt, Cam Heyward
Returning from a one-game absence because of a hamstring injury, outside linebacker Nick Herbig went largely unnoticed in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 13-6 loss Sunday to the Cleveland Browns. Except, of course, for one play. Herbig, making his sixth start of the season, couldn’t wrap his hands around a ball that...
Playoffs arrive early for Steelers with must-win game against Ravens in season finale
As disappointing as the 13-6 loss was Sunday to the Cleveland Browns, it could be worse for the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend. They could be the Browns, hanging their hat on a win that gave them all of four on the season. Or they could be the Cincinnati Bengals, who...
‘It’s what everybody wants’: Steelers-Ravens showdown a marquee matchup for Week 18
CLEVELAND — It turns out the NFL schedule makers knew what they were doing in May when they matched the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens in the Week 18 regular-season finale. After an unlikely turn of events in an 18-hour span, that game to open the new year went from...
Steelers lose in Cleveland to set up winner-take-all showdown with Ravens
CLEVELAND — On a rainy, gloomy afternoon along the shore of Lake Erie, with the chance to win the division at their fingertips, the Pittsburgh Steelers let the opportunity slip through their grasp Sunday with the football equivalent of a faceplant into the frigid waters. Presented a chance to secure...
Ravens’ win at Green Bay puts heat on Steelers to clinch division title with victory in Cleveland
If the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to win the AFC North, they will have to earn it. Help didn’t come Saturday night as the Baltimore Ravens kept their division title hopes alive with a 41-24 victory against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. A Ravens loss would have clinched...
Steelers’ running game heating up for stretch run behind Jaylen Warren, Kenneth Gainwell
An anomaly happened last Sunday at Detroit’s Ford Field. Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery, for once, weren’t the most formidable rushing duo on the indoor playing surface when the Detroit Lions hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers. Gibbs and Montgomery may each have a pair of 1,000-yard rushing seasons to their credit,...
Steelers CB Jalen Ramsey doesn’t practice because of illness; OLB T.J. Watt remains limited
T.J. Watt remained a limited practice participant Thursday for the second day in a row as he works his way back from a partially collapsed lung. Since resuming practice Wednesday after missing two games following a dry needling treatment that punctured his lung, Watt has worked strictly on a limited...
As Myles Garrett chases history, Steelers’ Dylan Cook bracing for lockdown performances
Dylan Cook will be in an unenviable position Sunday when he makes his anticipated third NFL start for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Lining up across from Cook at left tackle will be Cleveland Browns star Myles Garrett, who is having an historic season as a pass rusher. Garrett will enter the...
With rash of injuries at CB, Steelers add veteran Tre Flowers to 53-man roster
Tre Flowers received quite the Christmas gift Thursday when he was signed to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 53-man roster. With the Steelers dealing with injuries throughout the secondary, they added Flowers for depth heading into their game Sunday at the Cleveland Browns. Flowers, 30, was a fifth-round pick of the Seattle...
Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers wouldn’t mind some ‘payback’ from Packers in game vs. Ravens
Forty-eight years ago, the Pittsburgh Steelers took the unprecedented step of rewarding another NFL team for helping them reach the NFL playoffs. When Houston beat Cincinnati, 21-16, a week before Christmas in 1977, it sent the Bengals home for the playoffs and secured a spot for the Steelers. The Steelers...
T.J. Watt returns to practice for Steelers 2 weeks after lung partially collapsed
For the first time since having his lung punctured two weeks ago in a dry needling treatment, Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt returned to practice Wednesday on a limited basis. It was Watt’s first on-field activity since the Steelers’ win on Dec. 7 at Baltimore. “T.J. is one our...
Mike Tomlin ‘hopeful’ that OLB T.J. Watt can resume practicing this week following lung injury
T.J. Watt rejoined the Pittsburgh Steelers at their practice facility after undergoing surgery on a partially collapsed lung. The next step is rejoining his teammates on the practice field, and that could take place this week. “I’m hopeful,” coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday at his weekly press conference. Watt has...
If Ravens lose Saturday, Mike Tomlin may change Steelers personnel with division title in hand
Depending on the outcome of another game played Saturday night, the Pittsburgh Steelers could be champions of the AFC North before they step on the field Sunday to play the Cleveland Browns at Huntington Bank Field. If the Baltimore Ravens (7-8) lose their game at the Green Bay Packers in...
After Steelers coach Mike Tomlin pledges support, DK Metcalf’s 2-game suspension upheldVideo
Coach Mike Tomlin is supporting Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf in the wake of a two-game suspension that was handed down by the NFL on Monday. Metcalf was suspended after his confrontation with a fan at Ford Field in the first half of the Steelers’ game Sunday against the...
3 Steelers named to Pro Bowl roster, including 1st-timer Ben Skowronek
Making the Pro Bowl roster is an rite of passage for T.J. Watt and Jalen Ramsey. The Pittsburgh Steelers defensive stars were selected to the games Tuesday — Watt for the eighth consecutive season. They will be joined on the Pro Bowl roster by a newcomer, special teams player Ben...
Controversial, confusing conclusion to Steelers-Lions game left fans, players, coaches bewildered
Cameron Heyward can sympathize with the millions of fans watching on television trying to decipher what transpired in the final seconds of the Pittsburgh Steelers’
29-24 victory at Ford Field on Sunday. If the Kentucky Derby is the fastest two minutes in sports, that precise amount of time officials huddled...
Steelers move closer to securing AFC North title with wild win against Lions
DETROIT — Thanks to a controversial and favorable conclusion Sunday, the Pittsburgh Steelers will take a 9-6 record and three-game winning streak into Christmas. Their 29-24 victory against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field was filled with drama, and it moved the Steelers closer to securing their first AFC North...
Steelers beat Lions with 4th-and-goal stand as time expires
DETROIT — When Kenny Gainwell caught a 45-yard pass with 2 seconds left in the first half Sunday, it gave the Steelers an improbable touchdown against the Detroit Lions. It turned out, however, to be the second-most unusual finish to a half in the Steelers’ visit to Ford Field. The...
Jack Sawyer prepping for 1st start for Steelers in wake of injuries to T.J. Watt, Nick Herbig
For the first time in his young NFL career, Jack Sawyer played more than half of the defensive snaps in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 28-15 victory Monday night against the Miami Dolphins. The rookie fourth-round draft pick from Ohio State could exceed that workload Sunday when the Steelers face the Detroit...
Returning to hometown not as important as returning to field for Steelers’ rookie Derrick Harmon
After missing the past three games — and five overall — in his rookie season with the Pittsburgh Steelers because of knee injuries, first-round pick Derrick Harmon is expected to return Sunday when the Steelers face the Detroit Lions. It will be a special moment for Harmon — and not...
