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Steelers allowing 5,500 fans at Heinz Field for Sunday’s game
The Pittsburgh Steelers will allow fans at Heinz Field on Sunday for the first time this season. Shortly after Gov. Tom Wolf eased statewide restrictions on gathering limits, the Steelers on Tuesday announced plans to admit 5,500 spectators into the stadium for their game against the Philadelphia Eagles. The team...
WR Diontae Johnson to return for Steelers in Week 5 against EaglesVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers will be at full strength at wide receiver Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles with the return of Diontae Johnson from concussion protocol. Coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday at his weekly press conference that Johnson no longer is being treated for concussion symptoms. Johnson, the Steelers’ most targeted...
Gov. Wolf eases gathering restrictions with formula tied to capacity limits
Gov. Tom Wolf increased gathering-size limits for events statewide Tuesday, revealing a new formula that’s based on a percentage of a facility’s capacity rather than the 25-person indoor and 250-person outdoor restrictions previously imposed. Indoor events are limited to 10% to 20% of capacity, depending upon the venue’s size, and...
Tim Benz: Preemptive shortening of NFL season is not the way to go
In each of the last two years, the Steelers have suffered crushing late-season losses over the final four weeks that have prevented them from making the playoffs. In 2018, the Steelers inexcusably lost to the Raiders in Oakland in Week 13. Then they suffered a heartbreaking defeat in New Orleans...
Steelers players make do with unexpected early idle week
If the routine is becoming cumbersome to Bud Dupree, he isn’t saying so publicly. Each day during the Pittsburgh Steelers season, the 27-year-old outside linebacker leaves his house and heads to UPMC Rooney Sports Complex for practice. At the end of the work day, he returns home. Aside from a...
Bud Dupree boosting the production of Steelers teammate T.J. Watt
In this election year, perhaps there is no better pair of running mates on the Pittsburgh Steelers than outside linebackers T.J. Watt and Bud Dupree. In the minds of most, including those who have a say in the NFL’s defensive player of the month and year honors, it’s Watt who...
Confident rookie WR Chase Claypool quickly earns trust of Steelers
During the Pittsburgh Steelers’ most recent game, the skill-position offensive player who played the most wasn’t former Pro Bowlers JuJu Smith-Schuster or James Conner. It wasn’t $12 million free-agent signee Eric Ebron, either. It was a rookie, Chase Claypool. Claypool played 61 of the Steelers’ 80 offensive snaps during a...
First Call: Rough week to watch! During Steelers ‘bye,’ division and conference rivals win.
The Steelers had an unexpected day off Sunday thanks to the postponement of their game against the Tennessee Titans. And if they spent it watching the rest of NFL, they didn’t like what they saw. All three of their AFC North rivals ended up winning. A pair of other AFC...
Madden Monday: NFL covid-19 problems. Pat Narduzzi is ‘a blowhard.’ Metro Division fit for Marc-Andre Fleury?
No Steelers content to discuss for our “Madden Monday” podcast this week, as the team is coming off its surprise bye weekend. That’s thanks to the postponement of their scheduled game against the Tennessee Titans. Mark Madden and I start the show talking about how the NFL is handling their...
Tim Benz: NFL dancing through raindrops of covid-19, but a bigger storm is coming
This was bound to happen. Now the NFL has to brace for being unable to stop it. Or wish it away. Before this week, the covid-19 pandemic had been an ominous rumble of thunder in the distance. Now it’s become a daily rain cloud over the league. At least the...
With David DeCastro’s return, Steelers look to build consistency on offensive line
Until the NFL postponed their game Sunday, the Pittsburgh Steelers were on track to accomplish a modest goal on their offensive line against the Tennessee Titans. The Steelers would have started the same five players up front in consecutive games for the first time this season. Because that matchup has...
Steelers’ Jarron Jones accused of strangling, assaulting woman at Airbnb
A Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad player was arraigned and charged by Pittsburgh police in connection with an alleged incident involving a woman Saturday. Offensive lineman Jarron Jones, 26, of Rochester, N.Y., is charged with one count each of aggravated assault and strangulation — both felonies — and simple assault, a...
Chiefs-Patriots game off amid report Newton has COVID-19
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The Patriots-Chiefs game has been postponed until Monday or Tuesday due to positive coronavirus tests. Patriots quarterback Cam Newton reportedly is one of the players who tested positive, and the NFL said a player with Kansas City also did so. Kansas City has struggled over the years...
Little Mike Hilton making big plays at right time of his Steelers career
When Mike Hilton switched agents and signed with Rosenhaus Sports Representation in the 2018 offseason, he joined a firm known for getting top dollar for its clients. Two-and-a-half years later, Hilton not only made a prudent decision, he could set a barometer for slot cornerback contracts when he becomes an...
Steelers Four Downs: Suffocating run defense on all levelsVideo
1. No run zone By any measure, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ run defense has been elite through three weeks this season. It ranks No. 1 in the NFL by total yardage allowed (54.0 per game), No. 1 in average yards per carry (2.766) and tied for No. 1 in touchdowns ceded...
Steelers-Titans game rescheduled for Oct. 25, Steelers-Ravens bumped back a week
The NFL announced the plans for the postponed Pittsburgh Steelers game for this weekend, and its contingency went the most expected route. The Steelers will play the Tennessee Titans on Oct. 25, three weeks to the day after the game was originally scheduled to be played before multiple Titans players...
Postponements, early bye weeks haven’t had negative effect on Steelers
Parking lots and highways turned into ice rinks and speedskating tracks on a January weekend almost four years ago in America’s Heartland. Eleven years earlier, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ night-before-game meetings were conducted by flashlight at a blacked-out hotel near Miami as wind gusts bent palm trees outside. Although Hurricane Jeanne...
Report: 2 more Tennessee Titans players test positive for covid-19
One day after the NFL postponed the Pittsburgh Steelers game at Tennessee until later in the season, two more Titans players tested positive for covid-19, ESPN reported Friday morning. That increased the number of Titans players with positive tests to seven. Six staff members also have tested positive. The postponement...
Mark Madden: Steelers are inconvenienced but no punishment necessary for Titans
The postponement of the Steelers game at Tennessee is much ado about nothing. The NFL wasn’t as ready as it should have been. Nor was MLB when covid hit the Miami Marlins. The pandemic provides an unprecedented situation. Until an outbreak happens, you don’t know how you’ll react. When it...
First Call: JuJu’s ‘cringeworthy’ quote, some Steelers not happy about schedule shuffleVideo
Friday’s “First Call” gives us some sassy Pittsburgh Steelers who are speaking out about the NFL’s schedule change. An ex-Steeler is surprised about JuJu Smith-Schuster’s quarterback comments. Duquesne basketball is getting some love. And a stroll down Pirates memory lane. Bye-bye, bye Some of the Steelers are less than thrilled...
Tennessee reporter ‘fully confident’ that ‘the Titans did not break any protocol’
Normally what Pittsburgh Steelers fans want more than anything else on any given Sunday is a win from their team. This Sunday, Steelers fans will get something almost as good: a permanent excuse. If the Steelers don’t make the playoffs, or don’t win the division, or don’t win the Super...
Browns sign recently-released Steelers WR Ryan Switzer to their practice squad
Ryan Switzer has found a new NFL home, and it’s as close to Pittsburgh as you can get. Released by the Pittsburgh Steelers in their final preseason roster cuts, Switzer was signed to the practice squad of the Cleveland Browns on Thursday. Switzer spent the past two seasons as a...
Steelers’ Mike Tomlin ‘disappointed’ NFL postponed game against Titans
The Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans won’t play a football game in Week 4 after all. The NFL announced Thursday that the two teams will play at Nissan Stadium in Nashville later in season after another Titans player and staff member each tested positive for covid-19. The Titans have had...
Steelers’ T.J. Watt named AFC defensive player of month, Sports Illustrated cover boy
For the second time in three regular-season calendar months, T.J. Watt was judged to be the best defensive player in the AFC. The Pittsburgh Steelers edge rusher was announced Thursday as the recipient of that honor for September. Through three weeks of the NFL season, Watt is tied for the...
U mad, bro? Pittsburgh fans fume about Steelers-Titans delay, trading Patric Hornqvist, and … the presidential debate?
In this week’s “U mad, bro?” Pittsburgh sports fans are mad about how the NFL is handling the Steelers-Titans postponement. They are also mad at attempts to qualify the Steelers’ 3-0 start. Mad at the Penguins for trading Patric Hornqvist. And mad about the presidential debate. I’m mad, too. Because...
