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Steelers captains reach out to rookies from afar
It can be difficult enough assimilating into an NFL locker room as a rookie. Doing it during a worldwide pandemic that prevents any in-person meeting? Even harder. The Pittsburgh Steelers rookie class hasn’t even met each other — let alone their veteran teammates. But two draft choices who spoke with...
Carlos Davis ‘attends’ Steelers rookie camp in same house twin Khalil does so for BucsVideo
“Little” brother Khalil Davis banishes his brother to the basement. As close as he and identical twin Carlos are, their respective employers probably would frown upon them taking part in each other’s work. Carlos Davis was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers two weeks ago. Khalil Davis was taken a round...
Coronavirus concerns create a most unusual rookie minicamp for newest SteelersVideo
A typical NFL rookie minicamp often can include some face time and zoom. As in, a team’s newest players getting some valuable face time in front of their new coaches, and the faster ones showing off by zooming around practice fields. The unique circumstances surrounding 2020, of course, have made...
Mark Madden: Conditioning won’t be problem for Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger
The Steelers schedule has been released. Now we can predict their record. We could have done that right after last season ended. The schedule template dictated the Steelers’ opponents and sites for each game. We just needed dates matched to foes. That has been done. We have a graphic to...
Mike Tomlin: Steelers ‘extremely confident’ Ben Roethlisberger will be ready for seasonVideo
Another public comment from a prominent member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, another highly optimistic outlook for the health of Ben Roethlisberger. During a 3 ½-minute spot on the NFL Network during its 2020 schedule-release show Thursday night, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was asked about Roethlisberger’s projected availability for the Steelers’...
Tom Brady’s first scheduled appearance with Buccaneers is in Pittsburgh vs. Steelers
He probably won’t play, and he perhaps might not even put on a uniform. For that matter, the game might not even be played. But, as things stand now, Tom Brady’s first game of any sort for somebody other than the New England Patriots in 21 years is scheduled to...
Steelers schedule: Thanksgiving vs. Ravens, 2 prime-time December games
For the third time in eight years, Thanksgiving desserts across Western Pennsylvania will involve a heavy helping of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers are scheduled to host the rival Baltimore Ravens in a prime-time game Nov. 26, one of the highlights of their 2020 schedule revealed Thursday night. “We just...
Steelers to open season at Giants on ‘Monday Night Football’
Assuming the coronavirus pandemic allows for it, the stage doesn’t get much bigger for the opening of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2020 season. The Steelers will play in the shadow of New York City on “Monday Night Football” for their first game of the regular season, ESPN announced Thursday evening. The...
First Call: Ravens GM dodging questions about Antonio Brown, Steelers GM pumping up James Conner
Thursday’s “First Call” features attempts from Baltimore to quell rumors about Antonio Brown joining the Ravens. NFL scheduling leaks. And Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert props up James Conner as hype surrounding one of his backups swells. Antonio who? We all know former Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown and Baltimore...
Tim Benz: Jay Glazer’s shot at Ben Roethlisberger raises interesting dynamic
Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer is known to have a good relationship with Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin. I’m not sure how great his relationship will be with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger now, though. In a mailbag Q&A with The Athletic, a fan asked Glazer about potential success for the 2020 Steelers...
U mad, bro? Steelers fans lash back at criticism of draft strategy, JuJu Smith-Schuster
The black and gold pom-poms are out in force for “U mad, bro?” this week. Mark Madden and I get an earful from Steelers fans. And the message is clear: “Yinz shalt not be critical of ‘dem Stillers, n’at!” Nary a discouraging word is allowed to be uttered within the...
Steelers’ Ryan Shazier among NFL players in charity ‘Call of Duty’ tournament
Injured Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier will join Hall of Famer Terrell Owens and six active NFL players in a video game tournament that will benefit charities related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Shazier and the other NFL players will face professional gamers in “Call of Duty Warzone” matches that...
Steelers, Penguins among top 10 on Forbes list of ‘most passionate fans’
The page-wide photo at the top of the website link for the article said it all: a face-painted fan covered in black and gold from the waist up and waving a Terrible Towel at a Pittsburgh Steelers game. Though stay-at-home orders that have shut down the sports world offer them...
Steelers rookie Chase Claypool joins short but growing list of Canadians in the NFLVideo
For the first time in a decade, the top draft picks of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Pittsburgh Steelers share something in particular in common. Each is a citizen of the same nation. But while the prior time it happened Maurkice Pouncey and Beau Bennett were both American, this time, the...
Pitt coaches donate $500,000 for covid-19 vaccine research; Pirates, Penguins, Steelers add pledge of $300,000
Three Pitt coaches, athletic director Heather Lyke and their families are leading an effort to pledge $800,000 in support of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Vaccine Research, which is attempting to create a vaccine for the virus that causes covid-19. Coaches Pat Narduzzi (football), Jeff Capel (men’s basketball) and...
Steelers’ Devin Bush taking laid-back approach to stay-at-home ordersVideo
Mirroring the rest of society, it seems every athlete has been taking a different approach to the stay-at-home orders issued by most of the nation’s governors. For Devin Bush, he hasn’t overtaxed himself. Still the second-youngest player on the Pittsburgh Steelers roster as he enters his second season, the inside...
Pittsburgh native features Steelers’ ‘Immaculate Reception’ in NFL.com’s ‘What If’ series
During the covid-19 pandemic, we’re running out of old games to replay. Speculation over the NFL Draft has come and gone. And now more lists about “all-time great sports movies” exist than actual sports movies. So what’s the new layer of content to mine? It’s not even speculation about what...
Tim Benz: New people for an old idea. That could help Steelers figure out ILB void.
The line of inquiry for Steelers linebacker Devin Bush on Tuesday was not a surprise. Most of the questions had to do with how the defense will adjust to losing 750 snaps from fellow inside linebacker Mark Barron, who was released by the team as free agency hit. How the...
First Call: Comeback Player of the Year? Ben Roethlisberger isn’t favored. Guess who is.
Tuesday’s “First Call” features Ben Roethlisberger’s odds at winning the Comeback Player of the Year award. The Steelers-Cowboys Hall of Fame game is in doubt. T.J. Watt needs some cooking advice. And the Jacksonville Jaguars are trying to cool those Leonard Fournette trade rumors. Captain comeback DraftKings posted their odds...
Planning normal season, NFL still forms ticket refund policyVideo
While planning to play a full regular-season schedule, the NFL has formulated a ticket refund plan for canceled games or those held without fans. In a memo sent to the 32 teams by commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday, a uniform baseline for full refunds...
Devin Bush confident he, Vince Williams can shoulder Steelers ILB workloadVideo
Mark Barron is gone. Tyler Matakevich, too. No reinforcements were added via free agency, and no direct help is coming in from the draft. That leaves Devin Bush and Vince Williams as something of the last men standing at inside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2020. But Bush is...
First Call: Increase in Steelers post-draft perception. Odell Beckham Jr. talking big.
For Tuesday’s “First Call,” ESPN ranks the Steelers after the draft. Odell Beckham Jr. is talking big in Cleveland. Larry Fitzgerald is helping out in Arizona. And the NFL is scaling back its overseas schedule. Now that the NFL Draft has come and gone, ESPN.com decided to re-rank teams across...
Why are the Jets already trying to ‘lessen the load’ for Le’Veon Bell?
Should this be a concern regarding former Steeler Le’Veon Bell in New York? After just one season? The Jets are already talking about “lessening the load” for their $52.5 million running back. This despite the fact that Bell was the featured signing in New York prior to the 2019 season....
A look back at Steelers rookie Anthony McFarland’s 298-yard outburst vs. Ohio State
The morning of what had all the looks of another easy Ohio State win, Buckeyes quarterback Dwayne Haskins tried to warn his defensive teammates about the diminutive running back they were about to face Nov. 17, 2018. “I told them going into the game, ‘That boy Ant (is) a beast,’...
Art Rooney II, Kevin Colbert, Bill Cowher among those paying tribute to Don ShulaVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers president and general manager and their only living former coach were among those mourning Monday after the death of legendary NFL coach Don Shula. Steelers president Art Rooney II said Shula was on his “Mount Rushmore of NFL head coaches.” Rooney II also cited Shula’s recommendation to...
