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Mike Tomlin is aware he could be working with a new general manager after the NFL Draft when Kevin Colbert’s contract expires. Colbert has been working on a year-to-year contract basis and reportedly is contemplating retirement. “He and I have had discussions, but I’ll leave it to Kevin to address...

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin’s season-ending news conferences often go the way this year’s did, especially when the franchise’s season ends before the NFL playoffs or after the first round. That has now happened five years in a row — a first since the end of the 1971 season. The shorter...

Based on answers given at his year-end press conference Tuesday, Mike Tomlin is prepared to have one new coordinator on his Pittsburgh Steelers coaching staff in 2022. Tomlin admitted that defensive coordinator Keith Butler is mulling retirement. He also indicated that Matt Canada will return for a second season as...

NFL football analyst Matt Williamson breaks down each of the Steelers games in the Trib’s Steelers Film Study. Here’s what he saw in the Steelers’ wild-card game loss to the Chiefs. A huge underdog on the road, the Pittsburgh Steelers traveled to Kansas City to take on the red-hot Chiefs...

For as much as the national media loves it when Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin spins one of his famous Tomlinisms, I prefer the less-scripted stuff. Not that I dislike “painting the red barn red” and “cutting your eyelids off if you blink” or “jumpin’ on a movin’ train.” Yup....

Tuesday’s “First Call” features another shot at the Pittsburgh Steelers from ex-Cleveland Browns star Joe Thomas. Some honors for Marc-Andre Fleury. Another highlight for James Conner. And gambling advice for Round 2 of the NFL playoffs. Not done yet Apparently, ex-Browns offensive lineman Joe Thomas had more to say about...

A half foot of snow isn’t all that greeted the Pittsburgh Steelers upon their return to Pennsylvania early Monday. Boots will seemingly be just as needed to trudge through a deep collection of freshly-packed questions about charting the course of the future of the franchise. While the peripheral statistics suggest...

Now that the Pittsburgh Steelers season is over, a long offseason of debate is sure to ensue regarding the identity of their next franchise quarterback. The player who arguably has the most at stake in that decision let it known whom he supports. “I’m pulling for (Mason Rudolph),” Diontae Johnson...

The Steelers’ season-ending 42-21 wild-card loss at Kansas City offered no surprises. The Steelers told you, once again, who they really are. Now you’ve got no choice but to believe them. Plenty of criticism is rightly being heaped on the offense, which indulged its habit of not scoring a first-half...

Five things we learned from Chiefs 42, Steelers 21 1. Changes coming With 15 players set to hit unrestricted free agency, the Steelers that open OTAs in five months will look vastly different than the group that lost a playoff game for the fourth consecutive opportunity. Some decisions will be...

The Pittsburgh Steelers offense is catching most of the heat for the team’s failings en route to a 42-21 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday night’s playoff game. Rightfully so. By halftime, the team converted all of two first downs, was 1 for 8 on third downs, and...

Getting choked up and emotional Sunday night wasn’t only about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ season coming to an end for Cameron Heyward. It went beyond feelings associated with Ben Roethlisberger’s purported final game, too. Speaking soon after the Steelers’ 42-21 defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs in an AFC wild-card game,...

Offensive guards were catching touchdowns, and tight ends were throwing them. The Kansas City Chiefs pretty much had the wildcard playoff game wrapped up by halftime at Arrowhead Stadium in a blowout 42-21 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. At one point, the Steelers actually led 7-0 after a T.J. Watt...

Monday’s “First Call” features an ex-Cleveland Browns star kicking the Pittsburgh Steelers while they are down. Ben Roethlisberger bids farewell to Patrick Mahomes. Other Steelers with expiring contracts brace for departure. And the Penguins get set for a test in Las Vegas. Read the room Ex-Cleveland Browns star Joe Thomas...

Throughout a week of playoff hype and excitement, Pittsburgh Steelers fans did everything they could to talk themselves into why this week’s postseason result in Kansas City would be different from the 36-10 beatdown their team suffered at Arrowhead Stadium on Dec. 26. Hey, remember when the Steelers won in...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ben Roethlisberger tried to motivate his teammates by downplaying their chances against the Kansas City Chiefs in an AFC wild-card game. He labeled the Steelers the worst of the 14 teams that extended their season into mid-January. He talked of wanting to keep the game against...

JuJu Smith-Schuster fought his way back to play one more game this season. Was it also one final time he wore the black-and-gold? Smith-Schuster’s surprise return to game action three months after shoulder surgery ended with a team-high-tying five receptions in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 42-21 loss to the Kansas City...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dreams of the Pittsburgh Steelers delaying Ben Roethlisberger’s farewell for another week were alive and well early in the second quarter Sunday night at Arrowhead Stadium. Then, reality set in and the fairytale finish to his 18-year NFL career turned into a nightmare. Patrick Mahomes upstaged...

One Pittsburgh rookie offensive lineman — at least for the time being — lost his starting job late in the season after an injury. Another, apparently, did not. Dan Moore Jr. was back at left tackle when Sunday’s AFC wild-card playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs began. A fourth-round...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — JuJu Smith-Schuster’s return to the active roster for the Pittsburgh Steelers has resulted in wide receiver Cody White being designated as one of the team’s five inactive players Sunday night. Other players who won’t suit up for the wild-card game against the Kansas City Chiefs are...

In an era of athletes quitting teams and forcing trades, it would not have been unexpected to hear Ahkello Witherspoon was irked about what happened over his first 12 weeks with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But leave it to the veteran cornerback to apply some much-needed, heartening perspective. “Man, I had...

Rare does a punters’ debate stoke the fires of a team’s football fans, but in Pittsburgh some were irked by a recent choice. The Pittsburgh Steelers elected to go back to Pressley Havin III to handle the punting duties during Sunday’s AFC wild-card playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs....

The Pittsburgh Steelers enter tonight’s AFC wild-card game against the Kansas City Chiefs facing the longest odds, not only of any team in the NFL playoffs this season, but of any team ever at this point of the postseason. They are 13½-point underdogs against the two-time defending AFC champion Chiefs...

The Pittsburgh Steelers made it official Saturday that two of their highest-profile players will be available for Sunday’s postseason opener. Running back Najee Harris was upgraded to assured to play from a questionable designation given to him during Friday’s league-mandated injury report. Less than two hours later Saturday afternoon, wide...

The likeliest way for the Steelers to beat Kansas City in Sunday’s wild-card playoff game is for the Chiefs to play horribly while the Steelers get lucky. That’s not very likely. If you’re looking for a more precise route — but one that’s even less probable — the Steelers must...