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Each day of Steelers training camp, the Trib rounds up some things to pay attention to during practice: WHAT TO WATCH Friday night lights: The first departure from the norm at training camp comes in the form of the annual trip to Latrobe Memorial Stadium. Players will file onto school...

CANTON, Ohio — For a while Thursday, Vic Fangio didn’t know if his long-awaited debut as a head coach would happen in the Hall of Fame game. Fangio finished team meetings, then headed to a hospital because of a kidney stone. Though determined to lead his new team, the Denver...

Thursday’s Pittsburgh Steelers practice proved rookies Ian Berryman and Matthew Wright are pushing five-year incumbent punter Jordan Berry and kicker Chris Boswell, respectively. Berryman and Wright were signed as priority undrafted free agents after the draft in April, and both have shown they possess NFL-worthy potential. Berry and Berryman each...

The Steelers added another tall cornerback to their secondary Thursday when they signed Derrek Thomas, formerly of the Seattle Seahawks. To make room for Thomas on the 91-man roster, the Steelers waived injured cornerback Herb Waters. Thomas is 6-foot-3, 189 pounds and ran a 4.44 40-yard dash at the NFL...

As a wide receiver, Brandon Reilly is used to making quick adjustments at the line of scrimmage. Off the field, he’s become adept at making unexpected changes, too. Waived by the Detroit Lions on Tuesday, the 25-year-old former Nebraska receiver was out of work for less than 24 hours. The...

The latest injury at training camp for the Pittsburgh Steelers involved one of their least recognizable players. Long snapper Kam Canaday, who is in his third camp with the team, left practice early Thursday because of a groin injury. He was taken for an MRI to determine the severity of...

For Cameron Heyward, it was a little girl who approached him to autograph a program. To Alejandro Villanueva, what stands out about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ annual Friday Night Lights practice is the ride on the caravan of buses weaving through Latrobe. “It’s cool to sort of drive around in the...

A day after the first on-field scuffle between teammates at this year’s Pittsburgh Steelers training camp, the two affable veteran players involved in it were able to laugh it off. Alejandro Villanueva’s tongue-in-cheek explanation for the punch he threw toward Cameron Heyward after Heyward had lunged at him? It was...

Sutton Smith couldn’t help but smile while talking about being the Pittsburgh Steelers’ only two-way player on Thursday, a day after taking his first two practice reps on offense at training camp at Saint Vincent College. The Pittsburgh Steelers drafted Smith as pass-rushing outside linebacker but are tinkering with the...

Want to bring a smile to Ben Roethlisberger’s face? Ask him about his offensive line. The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback loves to talk about his linemen. He credits much of his success to the five men assigned to protect him on a weekly basis. He can recite their accomplishments, preach their...

Our “Breakfast with Benz” podcast comes to you from Steelers training camp at Saint Vincent College. Tribune-Review Steelers beat writer Joe Rutter and I caught up with Steelers offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner. We covered a lot of ground, including a look at the passing tree without Antonio Brown in the...

Thursday’s “First Call” features the new trailer for “Hard Knocks,” with significantly less Antonio Brown than we expected. Jordan Lyles debuts in Milwaukee. Baker Mayfield gets testy in Cleveland. Michael Thomas resets the bar for wide receiver contracts in New Orleans. Corey Dickerson misses out on history in Philadelphia. This...

You think 2019 has been a crazy year for Pittsburgh sports so far? Antonio Brown was traded. Le’Veon Bell went to the New York Jets. And the Steelers jumped into the top 10 of the draft. The Penguins were swept out of the playoffs, but Mike Sullivan got a contract...

In this week’s “U mad, bro?” some Steelers fans are mad about gender reveals. Others are angry about semi-trucks. And Pirates fans are angry about everything. And I mean, everything. Somebody named Eli did not like how somebody else named Eli showed up to Steelers training camp. When he loses...

Each day of Steelers training camp, the Trib rounds up some things to pay attention to during practice at Saint Vincent: WHAT TO WATCH Ola-mania: One player that has emerged as an early darling has been outside linebacker Ola Adeniyi. He starred in the “Backs-on-‘Backers” drill that highlighted the first...

As an aerospace engineering major who has done an externship at NASA, Joshua Dobbs was hoping the highlight of his summer break would be watching a scheduled rocket launch from Cape Canaveral. Unfortunately, the launch was postponed during his stay. Dobbs only can hope his chance of remaining the Pittsburgh...

The first practice of Pittsburgh Steelers training camp was Friday, and the first that included pads was Sunday. Wednesday is when the intensity ramped up a notch. Perhaps it was the off day Tuesday that recharged the competitive juices, maybe it was the 98-degree heat index or now that camp...

Two years ago, Antonio Brown vs. Artie Burns was the must-see individual battle of Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. Things change quickly in the NFL, but the 2019 version of No. 1 WR and shutdown cornerback features, arguably, an even better matchup: JuJu Smith-Schuster against Joe Haden. Though Haden’s reps are...

On a day when the heat index reached 98 degrees on the grass surface of Chuck Noll Field, the Pittsburgh Steelers saw an uptick on the number of players on coach Mike Tomlin’s injury report. Offensive lineman Derwin Gray, the team’s seventh-round draft pick, was a casualty of the heat,...

The Pittsburgh Steelers made a pair of roster moves at training camp on Wednesday, claiming free-agent wide receiver Brandon Reilly off waivers and waiving cornerback Alexander Myres. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound Reilly was released by the Detroit Lions, where he had two stints. He also spent time with the Buffalo Bills...

“Breakfast With Benz” returns to the practice fields of Saint Vincent College today. Oh, the players return as well. The Steelers are back at training camp after a day off. And one position that continues to be intriguing is inside linebacker. That’s where first-round pick Devin Bush is trying to...

Wednesday’s “First Call” looks at the benefits of Stephon Tuitt’s reworked contract with the Steelers. Good news for the Ravens. And Larry Fitzgerald loves his new quarterback. This could help The Steelers reportedly are restructuring Stephon Tuitt’s contract. Source: the Steelers have converted $5.195M of DL Stephon Tuitt’s $6M base...

Each day of Steelers training camp, the Trib rounds up some things to pay attention to during practice at Saint Vincent: WHAT TO WATCH Back to work: The Steelers return to practice after getting their first day off during training camp. The rest came at a good time for some...