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At minicamp, Steelers work on improving 2-minute situations
The first two days of minicamp practices for the Pittsburgh Steelers each ended with the first-team offense, followed by the second-team offense, trying to drive the length of the field and score a touchdown in a simulated 2-minute drill. It wasn’t by happenstance. Each of the final seven games last...
James Conner expects Steelers to spread carries evenly
James Conner was a workhorse in his first season as a Pittsburgh Steelers starter last year, eating up more than 62% of the carries in the ground game and 64% of the targets to running backs in the passing game. At least one key player in the locker room believes...
Keith Butler: Steelers did ‘great thing’ by trading up to draft Devin Bush
Evidenced mostly by a 9-6-1 record, the Pittsburgh Steelers didn’t do enough to replace injured inside linebacker Ryan Shazier for the 2018 season. Finding a player with Shazier’s blend of speed, athleticism and instincts remained atop the team’s wish list heading into the NFL Draft, and nobody was happier than...
Steelers new replay-challenge czar prepping by watching all 300+ NFL challenges from 2018
There were more than 300 replay reviews in the NFL last season. Teryl Austin vows to watch all of them. Hired by the Pittsburgh Steelers in January as their senior defensive assistant and secondary coach, part of Austin’s duties with his new team is to be something of a replay-challenge...
JuJu Smith-Schuster says he learned from Antonio Brown’s Steelers exitVideo
JuJu Smith-Schuster said he was disappointed with how Antonio Brown’s tenure with the Pittsburgh Steelers ended but said he wouldn’t describe their subsequent Twitter feud as hatred. The Steelers wide receiver exchanged words with Brown since the seven-time Pro Bowl and four-time All-Pro wideout was traded to the Oakland Raiders,...
Steelers announce training camp schedule, with 15 open workouts
For the 54th consecutive year, the Pittsburgh Steelers will conduct training camp at Saint Vincent College this summer, with players reporting for work by 4 p.m. Thursday, July 25. The first workout will be held Friday, July 26 at 2:55 p.m. The Steelers will hold 15 practices that are open...
Steelers’ Sutton Smith, ex-hockey player and Blues fan, breaks down Stanley Cup Final
It’s Blues vs. Bruins on Wednesday in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. So I turned to the best possible hockey expert in Pittsburgh for analysis for our podcast today. Look out, Bob Errey and Phil Bourque. Step aside, Colby Armstrong and Mike Rupp. This is Sutton Smith’s time...
Tim Benz: Can ‘Sweet Feet’ Shaun Sarrett fill Mike Munchak’s shoes with Steelers?
Everybody is in on the joke now. Not just the offensive linemen. “There you go, ‘Sweet Feet,’ ” Ben Roethlisberger hollered as he walked past a throng of media waiting for new offensive line coach Shaun Sarrett. “Uh, I mean, coach Shaun.” It’s been the running joke of Steelers spring...
Raiders, Antonio Brown chosen for HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’ this season
The NFL sideshow that is Antonio Brown will play out on subscription television this summer. The Oakland Raiders, who acquired the mercurial wide receiver in March after he forced a trade from the Pittsburgh Steelers, will be this year’s participant on HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” the NFL announced Tuesday night. The...
List of top NFL rookie running backs includes Pitt’s Qadree Ollison
An NFL.com ranking of the top five projected rookie running backs this season includes someone who has spent time working out on the fields at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. Hint: It is not Pittsburgh Steelers’ rookie Benny Snell Jr. Rather, former Pitt running back Qadree Ollison made the list compiled...
David DeCastro can ‘feel’ changes in Steelers’ locker-room atmosphereVideo
After missing three weeks of voluntary organized team activities due to the birth of his second child, Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro guard David DeCastro arrived for minicamp and noticed an immediate difference in the locker-room atmosphere. “You can feel it,” DeCastro said. Gone was the drama that permeated over the franchise...
Steelers new running backs coach Eddie Faulkner settles into 1st NFL coaching job
After almost two decades as a college assistant coach, Eddie Faulkner is embarking on his first NFL gig this summer. In his Pittsburgh Steelers position room, at least the faces Faulkner encounters are just about as green as his. The seven running backs on the Steelers roster combine for four...
7 weeks into NFL career, Steelers’ Devin Bush adjusting to life as a pro
Devin Bush had an NFL player in his home as a youngster, and he spent plenty of time around a former longtime NFL player and coach while in college. That’s just part of the reason that, seven weeks into his own NFL career, Bush feels as if he’s been adjusting...
For Artie Burns, it’s ‘get right or get going’ as Steelers minicamp beginsVideo
In early May, when the Pittsburgh Steelers declined to exercise the fifth-year option on Artie Burns’ contract, the fourth-year cornerback figured he had two options. “Get right or get going,” Burns said Tuesday. “It’s that simple.” Not much has gone right in recent years for the former first-round draft pick,...
Archie Manning better than Terry Bradshaw? Broncos coach Vic Fangio says so
Vic Fangio was in all likelihood merely politely talking up a friend who was his guest that day. But when the Denver Broncos first-year head coach discussed Archie Manning he made a comparison that Pittsburgh Steelers fans might not appreciate. Fangio indicated that he believed that 1970s NFL star Archie...
First Call: Antonio Brown is a singer now; enough Drake in the NBA Finals, already!
In Tuesday’s “First Call,” Antonio Brown dabbles in Le’Veon Bell territory. Emotional reaction to Kevin Durant’s injury. Kyle Rudolph is staying with the Vikings. And, please, enough Drake! Move over Le’V Mr. Big Chest is Mr. Big Voice now. Yup. A.B. is trying his hand at singing now. View this...
Former Steelers LB Arthur Moats announces retirement
Seventeen months after playing in his final game as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Arthur Moats announced his retirement Monday. Moats, who started 25 of the 62 games he played for the Steelers from 2014-17, posted a video to his verified Twitter and Instagram accounts. The montage of highlights...
Steelers finally could have perfect attendance for minicamp
Before the Pittsburgh Steelers can enjoy an extended break before training camp, one more piece of business remains. Minicamp, the final portion of the NFL’s offseason workout program, takes place this week. It starts with physicals Monday and practices Tuesday through Thursday. Like the organized team activities that preceded it,...
Tim Benz, Mark Madden discuss Mario Lemieux memories, Pirates problems, state of Steelers
Well, what do you know? It’s a “Madden Monday” podcast … on a Monday! Will wonders never cease? Between holidays, vacation days and our mutually busy concert schedule, Mark Madden and I haven’t been able to connect on a Monday for the past few weeks, pushing our usual post back...
Tim Benz: This decade of Steelers football isn’t what numbers suggest
This was an interesting find by TribLive’s Chris Adamski. He came across this table compiled by German stats guy René Bugner. No commentary from Bugner. Just the numbers. It’s a list of the best decades ever compiled by NFL teams. His numbers outline the best combined regular-season and playoff win-loss...
Steelers safety Jordan Dangerfield follows the rules in trying to find a roleVideo
Jordan Dangerfield has spent his football career trying to find a balance between breaking barriers and following the rules. That’s typical life for an undrafted free agent in the NFL. Even when Dangerfield was playing with the first-team defense during organized team activities this spring, the Pittsburgh Steelers safety always...
Steelers expect Stephon Tuitt to provide bigger splash in 2019
It was in his third season after signing a $59 million second contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers that defensive end Cameron Heyward enjoyed a breakthrough in terms of pursuing the quarterback. In 2017, Heyward totaled 12 sacks, marking the third time in franchise history that a defensive lineman reached double...
GM changes underscore Kevin Colbert’s longevity with Steelers
On an otherwise slow NFL news day Friday, the Houston Texans made the surprising decision to fire general manager Brian Gaine, and the New York Jets concluded their GM search by hiring Joe Douglas. These personnel decisions illustrate the stability the Pittsburgh Steelers have enjoyed with Kevin Colbert calling the...
T.J. Watt settles into role as a focal point on Steelers defense
Only 17 months ago, T.J. Watt still was, by definition, a rookie. Nowadays, he’s an accomplished veteran who is among the established leaders of the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. Life comes at you fast in the NFL. “It’s just a gradual kind of feeling-out process of where you are in your...
Unlike 2018, Steelers escape OTAs with healthy rosterVideo
Five things we learned about the three-week organized team activities that the Pittsburgh Steelers wrapped up Thursday: 1. Good health Ask any coach, and he or she likely will tell you the most important thing about OTAs is getting through it without incurring any significant injuries. Unlike last season, the...
