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John Steigerwald: Coach of the Year? Not Steelers’ Mike Tomlin
Sorry, Mike Tomlin, but John Harbaugh is NFL Coach of the Year. You deserved serious consideration when your Pittsburgh Steelers somehow were in position to get into the playoffs after losing Ben Roethlisberger for the season and having to deal with so many injuries to other key players along the...
‘I can take any hit … clean, dirty,’ Ravens QB Robert Griffin III says of Steelers’ tactics
BALTIMORE – Robert Griffin III was making his first NFL start in three years, and part of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defensive gameplan was to hit him as much as possible. “Yeah, that was the (plan),” linebacker Bud Dupree said after the Ravens’ 28-10 win. So the Steelers hit Griffin. A...
Ramon Foster uncertain whether Steelers will keep him for 12th season
BALTIMORE – The longest tenured player on the field Sunday for the Pittsburgh Steelers is preparing for an uncertain future. Guard Ramon Foster, who completed his 11th season with the organization, acknowledged after a 28-10 loss to the Baltimore Ravens he might have played his final down with the Steelers....
All in all, Steelers’ Devlin Hodges feels ‘blessed’ after rookie seasonVideo
BALTIMORE — Devlin Hodges went undrafted and unwanted this spring. By late summer, he was unneeded and unemployed. In December, he was underwhelming and at times appeared overmatched. But in between, the scrappy kid from Alabama became something of a Pittsburgh phenomenon as the first undrafted non-replacement rookie quarterback to...
Kevin Gorman: Stunned Steelers have no excuses (or answers) for missing the playoffsVideo
BALTIMORE — A Pittsburgh Steelers season that began with a blowout at the reigning Super Bowl champion ended with another lopsided loss at the hands of the NFL’s top team. The Baltimore Ravens might have rested seven starters, but their backups were brutal in beating the Steelers, 28-10, amid a...
Kevin Gorman’s Take 5: Ravens’ backups better than Steelers’ starters in season finale
BALTIMORE — For a team in a must-win situation in the season finale to qualify for the postseason, the Pittsburgh Steelers looked like they wanted no part of the Baltimore Ravens. Or the playoffs. Not that the Steelers got the outside help they needed anyway. The first five AFC seeds...
Steelers stumble vs. Ravens in finale, miss playoffsVideo
BALTIMORE — What unfolded over the course of three hours Sunday on a rainy day at M&T Bank Stadium was a microcosm of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ season. The start was bad. The end was worse. And what good that transpired in between simply wasn’t enough to outweigh the negatives. A...
7 Ravens starters not in uniform for regular-season finale vs. Steelers
BALTIMORE— Seven Baltimore Ravens starters are not in uniform for Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers. With Baltimore assured of the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs, coach John Harbaugh elected to sit MVP candidate quarterback Lamar Jackson, tackle Ronnie Stanley, guard Marshall Yanda, safety Earl Thomas and...
Mark Madden: All meaningful Week 17 NFL games should kick off at same time
Take down the Christmas decorations and put up refreshing sports notes! I got a lot of problems with you people, and you’re going to hear about it! • New Year’s Eve is JuJu Smith-Schuster’s favorite holiday: party for six hours, then drop a ball at midnight. (That joke was stolen...
5 plays that contributed to Steelers needing help in Week 17 to make playoffs
Defining moments of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ season heading into the regular-season finale often can’t be confined to one specific moment or play. The precise instance of Ben Roethlisberger’s season-ending elbow injury can be traced to sometime in the first half against Seattle when he began wincing after throws. Or perhaps...
Kevin Gorman: Steelers will watch playoff hopes on scoreboard again in season finale
The Pittsburgh Steelers ended last season clinging to their playoff hopes while watching — and rooting for — the Cleveland Browns to beat the Baltimore Ravens on the Heinz Field video board. That the Steelers will end this season doing some scoreboard watching once again is almost as inconceivable as...
Four Downs: Last time Ravens beat Steelers in meaningless finale, Steelers won out in endVideo
1. Finale history The Pittsburgh Steelers have won 11 consecutive regular-season finales and are 17-2 in them since the turn of the century. But before Steelers fans get too excited about their chances Sunday in Baltimore, both defeats in finales came at the Ravens. There is, however, interesting history involved...
Kevin Gorman: After regaining Steelers’ trust, Chris Boswell is kicking for keeps
Chris Boswell is prepared if this season finale ends the same way it did last year, with the Pittsburgh Steelers kicking a winning field goal for their ninth victory. This time, Boswell would get to be the hero. Even if that’s the last thing he wants Sunday afternoon against the...
Steelers rookies Benny Snell, Kerrith Whyte ready to take over again for injured James Conner
With James Conner unable to finish the regular season with a thigh injury, the Pittsburgh Steelers will turn back to a committee approach Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens. Jaylen Samuels, Trey Edmunds and rookies Benny Snell Jr. and Kerrith Whyte will fill various roles if the Steelers stick to the...
Ex-Steeler Antonio Brown gets workout with New Orleans Saints
Mr. Big Chest is in the Big Easy — at least for one day. Former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown, who is a free agent while the NFL investigates sexual misconduct claims against him, spent Friday at a tryout conducted by the New Orleans Saints. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported...
Devin Bush honored with Joe Greene award as top Steelers rookieVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers took the unorthodox approach in the NFL Draft by trading up 10 spots in the first round to select inside linebacker Devin Bush with the No. 10 overall pick. Bush rewarded them by setting a franchise-rookie record with 97 tackles with one game remaining in the regular...
Steelers’ Cameron Heyward wins ‘Chief Award’ for cooperation with mediaVideo
When Cameron Heyward was presented with the “Chief Award” in 2014, he told assembled reporters in the media room that he would be back up at the podium again at the end of a future season. Five years later, Heyward proved himself right. The Steelers’ Pro Bowl defensive lineman was...
Steelers’ JuJu Smith-Schuster ‘feels a lot better’ going into 2nd game after injury layoff
JuJu Smith-Schuster’s first game in more than a month was unproductive and left him in tears. He said his second game back from an injury layoff won’t be a repeat. “I feel a lot more better this week, just the smoothness of it,” Smith-Schuster said Thursday. “I think last week...
Kevin Gorman: In case of emergency, Steelers hope Paxton Lynch can show QB pedigreeVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers are down to a pair of polar opposites at quarterback in Devlin Hodges and Paxton Lynch, and the latter is everything the former is not. Where the 6-foot-7, 245-pound Lynch has prototypical size for a pocket passer, Hodges is shorter at 6-1, 209. Where Lynch was a...
Randy Fichtner, JuJu Smith-Schuster want Steelers’ Devlin Hodges to keep aggressivenessVideo
A day after Devlin Hodges insisted he hasn’t lost confidence in himself, his coordinator and a wide receiver said they haven’t either. Randy Fichtner and JuJu Smith-Schuster said they want Hodges to stay aggressive during the Pittsburgh Steelers’ regular-season finale Sunday at Baltimore — although Smith-Schuster added a caveat. “Yeah,...
Joe Haden misses Steelers practice; Steve Nelson returns, James Conner remains out
James Conner missed another Pittsburgh Steelers practice Thursday, and he was joined on the sidelines by another former Pro Bowl player in Joe Haden. But Steve Nelson returned to practice, a signal he will in the regular-season finale at Baltimore. Nelson practiced fully a day after he missed a session...
Linebacker T.J. Watt named Steelers MVPVideo
As much as the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive players relished T.J. Watt earning the team’s most valuable player award Thursday, they are more interested in whether he can claim a bigger accolade in about six weeks. At the NFL Honors ceremony Feb. 1, the eve of the Super Bowl, the NFL...
Steelers’ Ryan Switzer, Roosevelt Nix designated to return from injured reserve
If the Pittsburgh Steelers make the AFC playoffs and advance to the divisional round, they could get fullback Roosevelt Nix and wide receiver Ryan Switzer back on the active roster. The Steelers announced Thursday that Nix and Switzer have been designated to return from injured reserve, which paves the way...
CB Steve Nelson doesn’t practice for Steelers with groin injury
While the Pittsburgh Steelers’ opponent on Sunday, the Baltimore Ravens, enjoyed a day off on Christmas – a byproduct of earning home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs – coach Mike Tomlin put his players through a 90-minute practice Wednesday at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. Cornerback Steve Nelson was new to...
Devlin Hodges looking to bounce back for Steelers after brief benchingVideo
What transpired in the second quarter Sunday at MetLife Stadium was foreign to Devlin Hodges. As a four-year starter, three-time conference player of the year, FCS career passing yardage leader and Walter Payton Award winner in 2018, Hodges never was pulled from a game because of poor performance. It finally...
