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NFL Draft OT breakdown: Alabama's Jedrick Wills grades highest at deep position
The 2020 NFL Draft is April 23-25. Each day leading up to the first round, the Tribune-Review is compiling a positional preview of the top draft prospects. 1. Jedrick Wills Jr. Alabama, 6-4, 312 The NFL comparison assigned to Wills in his draft profile is Jason Peters, a nine-time Pro...
With Steelers candidates to deal on draft day, ex-NFL executives discuss strategies
Next week’s NFL draft is unlike any other over the past century for the Pittsburgh Steelers — and not just because of its virtual nature. After trading away their first- and third-round picks in separate deals for Devin Bush and Minkah Fitzpatrick, the Steelers own just one pick over the...
Time might be right for Steelers to find replacements at tackle in NFL Draft
The makeover of the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line, a unit that had been together since 2015, began last winter with the trade of right tackle Marcus Gilbert to the Arizona Cardinals. It continued last month with left guard Ramon Foster’s retirement. With age and expiring contracts creeping up on the...
Mark Madden: Signing LeSean McCoy would lessen Steelers' draft needs
This year’s NFL Draft means a lot to the Steelers. They have plenty of holes. James Conner isn’t a No. 1 back, not even when he’s healthy (which is rarely). The Steelers don’t have a true No. 1 receiver: JuJu Smith-Schuster tried, but isn’t. He’s a complementary piece, maybe just...
Tim Benz: OK, ESPN. Here's your ‘alternate reality’ path for Steelers to draft a QB.
“Inglourious Basterds” is one of my favorite movies. It’s got an alternate outcome to World War II at the end. The device of an alternate-outcome premise is popular on television lately. HBO’s “The Plot against America” is along those lines. So was Amazon’s “Man in the High Castle.” Perhaps our...
Lack of need at TE comes during good year for Steelers 
Since selecting Heath Miller with the No. 30 overall pick in 2005, the Pittsburgh Steelers have drafted a tight end in the first three rounds on just one occasion. In 2007, they used a third-round pick on Matt Spaeth. In the dozen drafts that followed, only Jesse James in 2015...
NFL Draft TE breakdown: Notre Dame's Cole Kmet leads thin class 
The 2020 NFL Draft is April 23-25. Each day leading up to the first round, the Tribune-Review is compiling a positional preview of the top draft prospects. 1. Cole Kmet Notre Dame, 6-6, 262 When he wasn’t catching passes in the fall, Kmet struck out batters in the spring as...
A QB with Steelers' 1st pick? ESPN’s Mel Kiper projects team will draft Jalen Hurts 
It’s mock draft season — and with no “real” sports seasons going on, NFL Draft projections are arguably getting more publicity than ever. No one’s mock drafts get more play than Mel Kiper’s, either. And Kiper has quite the eyebrow-raising projection for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first pick in next week’s...
First Call: Rod Woodson's weird logic on Roethlisberger vs. Bradshaw debate
Tuesday’s “First Call” takes a look at how Steelers legend Rod Woodson entered the fray regarding the recently spicy Ben Roethlisberger versus Terry Bradshaw debate. Steelers Hall of Famer Rod Woodson appeared on FS1’s “Speak for Yourself” on Monday. He was asked if Terry Bradshaw was right when he deferred...
NFL Draft WR breakdown: CeeDee Lamb, Alabama receivers highlight class 
The 2020 NFL Draft is April 23-25. Each day leading up to the first round, the Tribune-Review is compiling a positional preview of the top draft prospects. 1. CeeDee Lamb Oklahoma, 6-2, 198 In his final season at Oklahoma, Lamb became the favorite receiver of Jalen Hurts, catching 62 passes...
TCU's Jalen Reagor could be playmaker Steelers seek in 2nd round of NFL Draft 
In JuJu-Smith Schuster, James Washington and Diontae Johnson, the Pittsburgh Steelers have one of the youngest wide receiving trios in the NFL. If the organization follows through on its intention of grabbing another playmaker on the second day of the NFL Draft, that group could get even younger and become...
Mark Madden: Steelers should start Stefen Wisniewski at left guard, but they won't
There won’t be OTAs or mini-camp. Training camp is a long way off. There might not even be a 2020 season. But when the NFL does play, the Steelers will make a big mistake. The right decision is so obvious. It’s equally obvious the Steelers will make the wrong one....
Steelers add former Penn State WR Saeed Blacknall to offseason roster
The Pittsburgh Steelers continued to fortify their offseason roster with former XFL players, signing wide receiver Saeed Blacknall to a one-year contract Monday. Blacknall, a former Penn State pass catcher, most recently played for the Los Angeles Wildcats of the upstart league, which ceased operations last week after having its...
Tim Benz, Mark Madden: Steelers draft could have ripple effect; idea of remote MLB, NHL locations
Coming off of Easter Sunday, this week’s “Madden Monday” podcast looks at a different kind of resurrection. That of the entire sports world. When will we see it? And when we do, will we recognize it? Mark and I aren’t just talking about the mechanics of the leagues getting off...
First Call: Watt Bros. own Siblings Day; J.J. backs Cam Heyward; more noise about Jameis Winston and Steelers
In “First Call” on Monday, the Watt brothers latch onto National Siblings Day. One of them speaks out for snubbed Steelers star Cam Heyward. Another national voice pipes up about the Jameis Winston-to-Pittsburgh talk. And an update on the socially distanced NFL Draft. Friday was National Siblings Day. With so...
Tim Benz: Terry Bradshaw's contradictions about Mike Tomlin too ironic to ignore
You’ve probably heard the phrase “these are strange times” a lot in recent weeks. They sure are. So strange there is even some weird stuff happening beyond the entire shutdown of the planet thing that’s been going on for the past month. For instance, Terry Bradshaw’s interview on 93.7 The...
Subpar ground game last season may prompt Steelers to target RB early 
For a franchise that has Hall of Fame running backs in Franco Harris, John Henry Johnson and Jerome Bettis and received superlative rushing performances in recent years from Willie Parker and Le’Veon Bell, the Pittsburgh Steelers achieved history of another sort in 2019. Steelers running backs collectively produced one of...
NFL Draft RB breakdown: D'Andre Swift looks to extend list of Georgia standout backs 
The 2020 NFL Draft is April 23-25. Each day leading up to the first round, the Tribune-Review is compiling a positional preview of the top draft prospects. 1. D’Andre Swift Georgia, 5-8, 212 A school that produced Herschel Walker and Terrell Davis has churned out Todd Gurley, Nick Chubb and...
John Steigerwald: Don't let Terry Bradshaw fool you about Steelers' best QB
Terry Bradshaw is right about Tom Brady and wrong about Terry Bradshaw. Bradshaw created quite a stir Thursday on 93.7 FM, especially in New England, when he said he didn’t consider Tom Brady the greatest quarterback of all time. That’s not permitted in New England, and it’s violently frowned upon...
Former Steelers fullback Roosevelt Nix expected to sign with the Colts 
Former Steelers Pro Bowl fullback Roosevelt Nix will sign a one-year deal with the Indianapolis Colts, according to multiple reports. Nix, a 5-foot-11, 248-pounder, played with the Steelers for five seasons. He was released last month after the Steelers signed fullback Derek Watt. Nix played in just three games last...
Steelers profess no QB need, but could they be tempted by Jalen Hurts? 
The Pittsburgh Steelers weren’t intending to select a quarterback in the 2018 NFL Draft. They were set, after all, with Ben Roethlisberger as the franchise leader, Landry Jones as the backup and Joshua Dobbs as the third option. Then, Mason Rudolph dropped into the third round. The Steelers had a...
NFL QB breakdown: Burrow, Tua highlight top-heavy class 
The 2020 NFL Draft is April 23-25. Each day leading up to the first round, the Tribune-Review is compiling a positional preview of the top draft prospects. 1. Joe Burrow LSU, 6-3, 221 Barring a complete change of heart, the Bengals will select Burrow with the No. 1 overall pick....
Mike Tomlin spends long days on phone ‘talking football’ with Steelers staff 
These days, Kiya Tomlin can hear her husband’s familiar, booming voice coming from out of their home office. “I don’t know what they are talking about,” the wife of Mike Tomlin said, while chuckling, by phone this week, “but all I know is just that they just talk soooooo much...
Kiya Tomlin, wife of Steelers coach, converts fashion business into mask-making operation 
Kiya Tomlin kept her four-person staff on payroll after her Etna-based fashion retailer was ordered to close as part of the state’s social-distancing directive. The wife of Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, she was forced to abandon production of her spring collection, and decided to sell her existing inventory at...
Steelers-Cowboys Hall of Fame Game still set to go on as scheduled 
Keep those plans for that early-August two-hour drive northwest, Pittsburgh. For now. The preseason-opening Hall of Fame Game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys is still on, a spokesperson for the Pro Football Hall of Fame said Thursday in an email to the Tribune-Review. As it has been every...


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