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Steelers offseason positional outlook: Safeties
Editor’s note: This is Part 10 of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary cap information courtesy spotrac.com. Last offseason, the Pittsburgh Steelers flooded their roster with new safeties. Now they are tasked with continuing to sort out all of it....
Sportsbook favors Steelers’ Antonio Brown ending up with 49ers
The sportsbook community has spoken. And it believes that Antonio Brown has played his final down for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The odds for where Brown mostly likely will play in 2019 is not a surprising one: the San Francisco 49ers. BetDSI.com released prop-betting lines for Brown’s team in Week 1...
Steelers offseason positional outlook: inside linebackers
Editor’s note: This is Part 9 of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary cap information courtesy spotrac.com. It’s time for Take 2 in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ quest to find a replacement for Ryan Shazier. Last year as the offseason began,...
Steelers lose OL coach Mike Munchak to Broncos, replace him with Shaun Sarrett
Many associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers breathed a sigh of relief last week when the Denver Broncos decided to hire Vic Fangio as their coach in lieu of respected Steelers offensive line coach Mike Munchak. Turns out, that was premature. Munchak has agreed to terms with the Broncos to become...
JuJu Smith-Schuster doesn’t want Steelers to trade Antonio Brown
In a new YouTube video, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster says he wants Antonio Brown to stick around. The team’s leading receiver this season posted the Q&A video Sunday, answering about a dozen viewer questions. The topics ranged from video games to travel plans to his relationship status. But...
Steelers offseason positional outlook: Outside linebackers
Editor’s note: This is Part 8 of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary cap information courtesy spotrac.com. The subject of the 2019 contract for Bud Dupree was of great interest and debate this time last year. A year later, not...
Snoop Dogg talks Steelers after dropping puck at Penguins – Kings game
Rapper Snoop Dogg talked about Pittsburgh’s other team after the Los Angeles Kings hosted the Penguins at the Staples Center on Saturday night. Dogg took part in the Los Angeles Kings’ “Star Wars Night” event Saturday and after the game he was asked about his favorite NFL team - the...
Steelers offseason positional outlook: Defensive linemen
Editor’s note: This is Part 7 of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary-cap information courtesy spotrac.com. The starters for 2019 Pittsburgh Steelers along the defensive line are set in stone. But with rotations so common at the position, who else...
Steelers hire veteran NFL defensive assistant Teryl Austin
Some who follow the Pittsburgh Steelers asked for or predicted change at defensive coordinator and secondary coach. On Friday, the Steelers announced the hiring of Teryl Austin to the coaching staff, with the Pitt graduate taking over a newly created position of “senior defensive assistant/secondary.” A Sharon native, the 53-year-old...
Game-worn Swann, Bettis jerseys among Steelers items in auction collection
A 1980 game-worn jersey sported by Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame wide receiver Lynn Swann is among the items up for auction at Lelands.com. A portion of the auction house’s Classic Auction Winter 2019 collection are 32 Steelers-related items, headed by the Swann jersey and a 2000 game-worn jersey by...
Steelers offseason positional outlook: Interior offensive line
Editor’s note: This is sixth of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary cap information courtesy spotrac.com. Over the past 18 months, the long and prosperous Pittsburgh sports tenures of the likes of Marc-Andre Fleury, James Harrison and Andrew McCutchen came...
Steelers’ Antonio Brown smokes cigars with Chad Johnson
It all started 8 ½ years ago with #JagrWatch. Last year, it was “Where’s Le’Veon?” So far in 2019, the Pittsburgh sports scene is enamored with following Antonio Brown. Friday, Brown showed up on the social-media accounts of former Cincinnati Bengals star receiver Chad Johnson (nee Ochocinco), smoking cigars. During...
Steelers’ David DeCastro won’t play in Pro Bowl because of injury
Guard David DeCastro became the second Pittsburgh Steelers player to withdraw from the Pro Bowl because of an undisclosed injury when he was replaced in the all-star game Thursday by Cleveland Browns guard Joel Bitonio. Wide receiver Antonio Brown pulled out of the Pro Bowl last week with an injury....
Steelers offseason positional outlook: Offensive tackles
Editor’s note: This is the fifth of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary cap information courtesy spotrac.com. Marcus Gilbert took to Twitter soon after the season ended to proclaim on his verified account that “2019 will be my best one...
One of the Steelers’ longest-tenured players, Daniel McCullers keeps surviving; will he again?
Only seven of the 55 other players who appeared in a game for the Pittsburgh Steelers during the recently-completed season have been with the team longer than Daniel McCullers. But as a pending unrestricted free agent, will Big Dan be back for a sixth season in black-and-gold? “We’ll just see...
Pine-Richland grad Kevin Rader signs futures deal with Steelers
With two tight ends set to hit free agency in March, the Pittsburgh Steelers signed former Pine-Richland and Youngstown State tight end Kevin Rader to a futures contract Wednesday. Rader was an undrafted free agent in 2018 and spent last summer in the Green Bay Packers’ training camp. Rader began...
The Steelers’ ‘other’ Edmunds, Trey, happy to land in Pittsburgh, hopes to stick
Seemingly every time he walked into or out of the locker room at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, Trey Edmunds had a smile on his face. A second-year running back who’s developed a reputation as a special-teams standout, Edmunds was beaming not only because he was with the Pittsburgh Steelers but...
Broncos pass on Steelers’ Mike Munchak as head coach
It looks like Mike Munchak will be staying around to coach the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line. Munchak was a finalist for the Denver Broncos’ coaching vacancy, but ESPN and NFL Network reported Wednesday afternoon that Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio will get the job. Munchak, 58, has coached the...
Can underwhelming rookie James Washington take on bigger role in Steelers offense?
While the debate rages on about if the Pittsburgh Steelers should trade superstar Antonio Brown, an under-discussed aspect of the situation is how the organization would replace him. It’s true, should Brown be shipped out, JuJu Smith-Schuster would assume the role as No. 1 wide receiver. But that leaves a...
Steelers offseason positional outlook: Tight ends
Editor’s note: This is the fourth of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary-cap information courtesy spotrac.com. For a period of several years about a decade ago, typically tight-lipped general manager Kevin Colbert would be very open about one thing regarding...
Steelers sign former Wisconsin DE Conor Sheehy to reserve/future deal
The Pittsburgh Steelers added to their organizational depth at defensive end Tuesday, signing former Wisconsin lineman Conor Sheehy to a reserve/future contract. The 6-foot-4, 293-pound Sheehy was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Green Bay Packers last spring but was cut at the end of training camp. He...
Steelers offseason positional outlook: Wide receivers
Editor’s note: This is Part 3 of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary cap information courtesy spotrac.com. The eyes of not only Pittsburgh Steelers fans but of those around the entire NFL community will be watching closely how the Antonio...
Running back unlikely to be offseason priority for Steelers
Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary cap information courtesy spotrac.com. Maybe the Pittsburgh Steelers would have run the ball more frequently — and perhaps more effectively — if Le’Veon Bell had reported for...
Antonio Brown withdraws from Pro Bowl; JuJu Smith-Schuster to replace him
Citing an injury, wide receiver Antonio Brown will not play in the Pro Bowl, opening the door for teammate JuJu Smith-Schuster to replace him in the all-star contest, the Pittsburgh Steelers announced Monday. Brown missed the season finale against Cincinnati with what the Steelers said was a knee injury. But...
Mark Madden: No logical connection between Roethlisberger, Steelers’ circus
Mike Freeman covers the NFL for Bleacher Report. When the Steelers’ latest round of turmoil went viral, Freeman tweeted, “Three people deserve blame for the Steelers’ predicament: Ben , and Tomlin. But my point has been that Tomlin and AB catch all the heat while Ben skates....
