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The Kenny Pickett era is underway. Pickett, the former Pitt star and first-round pick in April, made his NFL debut to begin the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first offensive possession of the second half of Sunday’s home game against the New York Jets. The Steelers managed just six points in the first...

Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw, who helped guide the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowls in six years in the 1970s, revealed Sunday he battled two forms of cancer over the past year but now is cancer-free. A longtime analyst on “Fox NFL Sunday,” Bradshaw announced on the pregame...

Jim Sweeney, who left his mark on Western Pennsylvania football as a teenager and later became a durable and reliable offensive lineman for Pitt, the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers, died Saturday. He was 60. Sweeney helped Seton LaSalle win its first WPIAL title in 1979 while compiling a...

Joe Greene sees no reason why the Pittsburgh Steelers shouldn’t be retiring Franco Harris’ No. 32 in December on the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception. “Before Franco, we hadn’t done very much,” Greene said. “After Franco, we didn’t do much, either. But during Franco, we did a lot.” Greene...

Aside from an injury and previously-announced change in practice-squad call-ups, the Pittsburgh Steelers have largely kept their list of Sunday inactives the same through four games this season. That remained true Sunday for the game against the New York Jets, meaning rookie seventh-round pick Mark Robinson still has yet to...

On Saturday, the Pittsburgh Steelers added reinforcements from the practice squad to provide depth in the wake of injuries to outside linebacker T.J. Watt and cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon. Elevated to the 53-man roster were linebacker Ryan Anderson and cornerback Josh Jackson. They will be in uniform Sunday when the Steelers...

Experience has taught Cam Heyward not to sweat a two-game losing streak in the first month of an NFL season. He’s been here before. So much so that he’s become somewhat of an expert on slow starts by the Pittsburgh Steelers. In nine of Heyward’s 12 seasons, the Steelers have...

Controversy seems to follow Antonio Brown wherever he goes. That trend continued on Saturday, when the New York Post released videos from a May 14 incident at a Dubai hotel pool. Brown, who was apparently nude in the pool, is shown shoving his naked buttocks directly in the face of...

In watching the Tua Tagovailoa head-injury saga play out this week, Cameron Heyward couldn’t help but think back to when some observers believed he’d suffered a concussion during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals. “But I had no symptoms or anything; I just got the wind knocked out of me,”...

Starting cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon did not practice again Friday and will not play for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. But star safety Minkah Fitzpatrick satisfied NFL concussion protocol and was cleared to play in their home game against the New York Jets. Witherspoon left last week’s loss at the Cleveland...

Heading into his Week 4 game, Najee Harris ranks 32nd in the NFL in rushing yards and 45th in yards per carry. Unlike 82 other players across the league, Harris does not have a run that’s gained more than 11 yards. Not exactly the type of production the Steelers envisioned...

Some say the players are blaming the offensive coordinator. Some interpret comments from the wide receivers that they blame the quarterback. Seemingly everyone has, at one point, blamed the offensive line. But one of the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive captains strongly asserted Friday that there is no internal discord among those...

Outside linebacker Melvin Ingram of the Miami Dolphins won AFC Defensive Player of the Month. Ingram played for the Pittsburgh Steelers last year until leaving after six games because he was unhappy with playing time. Coach Mike Tomlin granted Ingram his requested exit because, as Tomlin says, “We need volunteers,...

Hines Ward sees some Pittsburgh in San Antonio. Ward, who played his entire 14-year career with the Steelers and was MVP of their Super Bowl win over Seattle in 2006, is getting his first opportunity to be a head coach with San Antonio in the new XFL. The league relaunches...

Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon did not practice for the second consecutive day, leaving his status for Sunday’s game against the New York Jets in peril. But star safety Minkah Fitzpatrick was again a full participant, suggesting he is progressing well through NFL concussion protocol. Witherspoon suffered a hamstring injury...

If there is one NFL trend the Pittsburgh Steelers can claim to be a part of, it’s a lack of scoring. The Steelers are averaging only 18 points per game. They ended up at 20.2 a season ago. And keep in mind, seven of their 54 points were the result...

In Friday’s “First Call,” a pair of former Pittsburgh Steelers pick up NFL awards. Myles Garrett receives a vehicular citation after his car crash earlier this week, and it’s not his first. A league-wide gambling trend is emerging in the NFL. And we find out where Minkah Fitzpatrick is trending...

The falling, one-handed catch that made George Pickens the talk of social media last Thursday night impressed just above everyone. Well, everyone but Pickens. The Pittsburgh Steelers rookie receiver confided after practice Thursday that — even with a week of contemplation — it didn’t register in the top five catches...

At first blush, the New York Jets would seem to be the antidote for the ailing Pittsburgh Steelers run defense. As much as the Steelers have struggled trying to establish a running game, the Jets have fared worse. They have totaled 18 fewer rushing yards than the Steelers during a...

It’s a question the Pittsburgh Steelers players face every game T.J. Watt sits out because of injury: What do they have to do to win without the NFL Defensive Player of the Year? Six years into the star outside linebacker’s career, the answer is like Pi. It can’t be calculated....

1. Among the best ESPN this week unveiled a new advanced metric to quantify the value of NFL receivers. The network calls its tool “Receiver Tracking Metrics” and describes it as using tracking data from NFL Next Gen Stats “to analyze every route run — including those that are untargeted...

In Thursday’s “First Call,” we have a blunt review of the Pittsburgh Steelers offense from one of their alumni in the media. Diontae Johnson has a succinct message for all the players on offense. Myles Garrett is recovering from his injuries sustained in a car wreck earlier this week; we...

I have a concern about the Pittsburgh Steelers. What if coach Mike Tomlin does replace Mitch Trubisky with Kenny Pickett? And then, what if Pickett stinks and Tomlin goes back to Trubisky? I mean, what are people going to complain about? This column is going to run out of material...

The big story in the world — actually, in the universe — this week is that NASA has figured out a way to fly a projectile into an asteroid with the intent of rerouting it. That’s right. NASA actually flew something the size of a “vending machine” into a harmless...