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A record-setting quarterback and a fullback named “Monte the Mullet” highlight the group of rookie free agents reportedly signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers after the draft ended. Five-year University of Minnesota starting quarterback Tanner Morgan will become the third quarterback on the Steelers’ roster headed into organized team activities. According...

For his first NFL Draft as Pittsburgh Steelers general manager, Omar Khan swung two trades, moving up to get a first-round pick and moving back to acquire the fourth-round selection he had given away a day earlier. All the while, Khan used his seven selections over three days to make...

My annual “What the Steelers didn’t get in the NFL Draft” column is going to take on a different tone this year. That’s because a quote from coach Mike Tomlin before the draft actually resonates more now than it did Monday. “We’ve been able to do some things in free...

Spencer Anderson Seventh-round pick, No. 251 overall Offensive lineman, Maryland 6-foot-4, 305 pounds Stats: Made 32 starts and appeared in 38 games over four college seasons, starting each of Maryland’s 31 games the past three seasons. Hometown: Bowie, Md. Maryland running back Roman Hemby gives the Terps a 7-0 lead...

The Pittsburgh Steelers concluded the NFL Draft the way they started it: by taking an offensive lineman. With their second selection of the seventh round Saturday, No. 251 overall, the Steelers took Maryland’s Spencer Anderson. His selection bookends with left tackle Broderick Jones, who was chosen by the Steelers with...

CORY TRICE Seventh-round pick, No. 241 overall Cornerback, Purdue 6-3, 206 Numbers: In 30 career games at Purdue, he started 24 games and totaled 106 tackles, five interceptions and 15 pass breakups. … He had a team-high 10 pass breakups and two interceptions in his senior year in 2022. …...

This might be looked back on as a draft in which the Pittsburgh Steelers went big at cornerback. Really big. Less than 24 hours after drafting 6-foot-2 ½, 193-pound cornerback Joey Porter Jr. in Round 2, the Steelers spent the first of their two seventh-round picks on an even bigger...

The list of Pitt defensive backs recruited and developed under coach Pat Narduzzi and eventually drafted by an NFL team grew by two to eight Saturday when the Houston Texans selected strong safety Brandon Hill in the seventh round (No. 249 overall). Hill’s partner at safety, Erick Hallett II, was...

During his record-setting career at West Virginia, defensive tackle Dante Stills evolved from a freshman All-American in 2018 to a four-time All-Big 12 selection. He was second-team all-conference in 2019 and 2020, rising to first team in 2021 and 2022. All those months in the weight room, at practice and...

If there’s one trait the NFL values over almost every other, it’s reliability. And former Pitt free safety Erick Hallett II certainly showed that by finishing his college career by making 31 consecutive starts. The Jacksonville Jaguars were paying attention, and they made Hallett a sixth-round draft choice Saturday (the...

PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles acquired running back D’Andre Swift from the Detroit Lions in exchange for a 2025 fourth-round pick. The two teams also swapped 2023 seventh-round picks. Swift, a former St. Joseph’s Prep star who attended Georgia, will provide the Eagles with a dynamic talent in the backfield. He...

BY GABE HENDERSON | Home Field Sports The 2023 NBA Playoffs are off to a crazy start with high seeds dropping like flies. If you’re a bettor who had futures on the NBA Finals favorites, the Milwaukee Bucks, or the new kids on the block, the Cleveland Cavaliers or Memphis...

It took all of one day for the Pittsburgh Pirates to earn a series victory against the Washington Nationals. Having taken down the Nationals in the first game of Saturday’s day-night doubleheader, the Pirates scored runs in six of the first seven innings of the nightcap to win 16-1, setting...

Penn State wide receiver Parker Washington was overlooked through five-plus rounds of the NFL Draft, but he is considered one of the best 50/50 combatants coming out of college. The Jacksonville Jaguars realized that and chose Washington in the sixth round (185th overall) Saturday. With the 185th pick in the...

DOVER, Del.— Kyle Larson has survived near-death experiences on the track in all kinds of racing series. Even by those harrowing standards, the 2021 NASCAR champion still found the aftermath of the full-contact hit from Ryan Preece last week at Talladega “unsettling.” It twisted and busted the support bars in...

Mt. Lebanon graduate Colby Sorsdal started five seasons and 46 games at William & Mary, but his football career is far from finished. .@WMTribeFootball @colby_sorsdal is a day 3 prospect who wasn’t invited to the combine was has 4 critical components; he has size, he has experience , moves very...

Aaron Rodgers has moved on, and Sean Clifford is moving in after the Green Bay Packers drafted the former Penn State quarterback in the fifth round of the NFL Draft on Saturday. Clifford was the 149th player chosen overall. Clifford was Penn State’s starting quarterback for the past four seasons,...

We don’t know who the Pittsburgh Penguins’ next GM, president of hockey operations, etc. will be. But here’s a situation that needs to be considered. Penguins prospect (they don’t have many) Filip Hallander is no longer a Penguins prospect. His contract is expiring. He’s a restricted free agent as per...

Unless your last name is Manning, college players can’t manipulate the NFL Draft to land in a desired spot. Former Pitt linebacker SirVocea Dennis’ professional fate rested with the 32 NFL teams, but ending up in Tampa, Fla., with the Buccaneers on Saturday surely looked like a predestined event. Dennis,...

Brotherly love continued for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday in the NFL Draft. In what seems to be an annual occurrence, the Steelers added to their legacy of brother combinations when they drafted Wisconsin linebacker Nick Herbig with their fourth-round pick. Herbig, 21, was drafted by the Steelers less than...

After Izzy Abanikanda worked out for pro scouts inside Pitt’s indoor practice facility last month, he was asked what he wanted the NFL to know about him. “I want them to know I’m a dedicated, disciplined, humble man, on and off the field,” he said. But he added, without shame,...

Nick Herbig Fourth-round pick, No. 132 overall Outside linebacker, Wisconsin 6-foot-2, 240 pounds Stats: Led the Big Ten and tied for sixth nationally with 11 sacks last season. Added 15 ½ tackles for loss among 47 total tackles (33 solo) and finished three-year college career with 137 tackles (97 solo,...

BY ZACH EWING | Home Field Sports Each day, one of our experts will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. Here are...

Carter Warren’s loyalty, sadly, was not rewarded after he decided — with his teammates on Pitt’s offensive line — to return for a sixth season in 2022. After eschewing an invitation to the 2023 Senior Bowl, Warren played and started in only the first four games before suffering a season-ending...