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Steelers 2019 offense among most impotent for franchise over past half-century
We knew the Pittsburgh Steelers offense this past season was bad. But how bad? One of the worst since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger. Without Antonio Brown (traded), Le’Veon Bell (free agency) and Ben Roethlisberger (injury in Week 2), the Steelers finished 30th in the NFL in yards (276.8 per game)...
Javon Hargrave wants to return to Steelers, seems resigned to fact he probably won’tVideo
At one point during what was a reflective Sunday for Javon Hargrave, the defensive lineman slipped up while speaking to media in the M&T Bank Stadium visitors locker room. Asked about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ outlook for 2020, Hargrave’s initial choice of pronoun spoke volumes — so much so Hargrave seemed...
No receiver drew higher rate of pass interference penalties than Steelers’ Deon CainVideo
In his short stint with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Deon Cain has shown propensity for making some big plays. And in 2019, he also showed himself particularly adept at at least one specific skill. No receiver in the NFL this season drew a higher rate of pass interference penalties from opponents...
After earning his way into Steelers lineup late in 2019, Justin Layne aims higher in 2020
When the Pittsburgh Steelers coaching staff made the conscious decision to activate cornerback Justin Layne for the final six games of the season — choosing the rookie over veteran Artie Burns — it was a landmark moment in Layne’s young NFL career. After all, it signified that the Steelers viewed...
Steelers 2020 free-agency primer: Difficult decisions loom
Instead of focusing on ways to stop and attack the New England Patriots for a playoff game this week, the Pittsburgh Steelers will turn their attention to 2020. “When you are not in the tournament,” coach Mike Tomlin said at his season-ending news conference Tuesday, “it allots you more time...
Penn State’s Marcus Allen makes 2019 Steelers debut in Week 17, looks ahead to 2020
It took until the year’s final week and the season’s final game, but Marcus Allen made his 2019 Pittsburgh Steelers season debut. The Penn State alumnus and 2018 fifth-round pick played special teams during Sunday’s season-ending loss to the Baltimore Ravens. “I just feel blessed to get another opportunity to...
Mike Tomlin: Keeping Bud Dupree ‘a priority’ for SteelersVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ season is over, and one of the first landmarks of an NFL offseason is free agency. Coach Mike Tomlin left little ambiguity regarding his feelings toward the Steelers’ highest-profile pending free agent. “He’s a priority of for us,” Tomlin said of outside linebacker Bud Dupree. No matter...
Steelers on HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’? Mike Tomlin hilariously acknowledges it’s possibleVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of five teams eligible to appear on HBO’s annual late-summer football series, “Hard Knocks.” If coach Mike Tomlin wasn’t aware of this prior, he was made aware of it during his season wrap-up news conference Tuesday at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. And the veteran, typically...
Steelers’ Devlin Hodges reflects on ‘wild’ year, doesn’t duck need for improvement
It wasn’t until teammate James Conner urged him to stop and consider the big picture of what transpired during his 2019 that quarterback Devlin Hodges took the time to fully appreciate all he’d been through and what all he’d accomplished. “It’s been wild,” Hodges said on the day after the...
Steelers’ Mason Rudolph has 6-8 week rehab after ‘procedure’ on shoulderVideo
His left arm in a black elastic sling, Mason Rudolph walked through the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room a day after a season ended with him on the injured reserve list. Rudolph said that after he injured his shoulder during the third quarter of last week’s loss at the New York...
Steelers re-sign OLB Tuzar Skipper, ink 11 practice-squad players to reserve/future deals
The Pittsburgh Steelers signed passrushing specialist Tuzar Skipper for two more seasons, and they formally kept all 11 of their practice-squad players on the day after their season ended. Skipper started and finished the season on the Steelers’ 53-man roster after making the team following a rookie minicamp tryout. He...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In potentially final game with Steelers, B.J. Finney knows drill in spot starts
Four of the five Pittsburgh Steelers offensive linemen have been starting alongside each other for almost five seasons. The bond between three of them goes back to 2012. So, it perhaps was the ultimate compliment to B.J. Finney that one of those venerable veteran lineman said earlier this week that...
Beating Steelers is enough motivation for Ravens in meaningless game
It would seem that the Baltimore Ravens have nothing to play for in Sunday’s regular-season finale. Except for the fact of who it’s against. “It’s a big deal, as always, to play the Steelers,” Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said during a conference call with Pittsburgh reporters. “It’s a rivalry. We...
Mike Tomlin indifferent on Steelers scoreboard-watching during season finale
Mike Tomlin probably knows a lost cause when he sees one. So he has taken an indifferent approach to his players following other games going on around the league Sunday. The Pittsburgh Steelers’ playoff fate is at least in part dependent on the results of the Tennessee Titans-Houston Texans game...
Mike Tomlin, Steelers expect to see former Penn State QB Trace McSorley with Ravens
After a three-year starting career at Penn State in which he won 31 games, Trace McSorley figures to get the first regular-season action of his NFL career against the Pittsburgh Steelers. With the Baltimore Ravens having already locked up the AFC’s No. 1 seed in the playoffs, coach John Harbaugh...
With Mason Rudolph unavailable, Steelers have no choice but to turn back to Devlin HodgesVideo
It might have been the only time Mike Tomlin laughed on Christmas Eve. As the old saying goes, if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry — and the latter might have been in play for Tomlin on a day in which he had no choice but to turn to Devlin Hodges...
Maurkice Pouncey will not play in Steelers regular-season finale vs. RavensVideo
It’s probably fitting that in this injury-riddled Pittsburgh Steelers season that they’ll be without at least one more Pro Bowler for their regular-season finale. Center Maurkice Pouncey will not play against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday in a game that earning a win would significantly aid the Steelers’ playoff hopes....
