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Steelers LB T.J. Watt named AFC defensive player of the month
The honors are piling up for T.J. Watt. The Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Thursday was named AFC defensive player of the month. In four November games, Watt had 6½ sacks, 16 tackles (11 solo), nine quarterback hits and forced two fumbles. Another game, another sack for the #Steelers’ T.J. Watt...
Steelers WR JuJu Smith-Schuster runs for 1st time since knee injury
The Pittsburgh Steelers on Wednesday practiced for the seventh time since JuJu Smith-Schuster last appeared in a game. And for the seventh time, Smith-Schuster did not participate. The team’s top wide receiver did, however, run on his own for the first time since suffering a knee injury Nov. 14 during...
Steelers’ Smith-Schuster: Why go basic with names when you have ‘JuJu’ and ‘Duck’
If there’s a man in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room who knows the value in a nickname, it’s JuJu Smith-Schuster. And Smith-Schuster speaks from experience when he said part of the appeal for Pittsburghers about Devlin Hodges is his nickname. “I think when you have a name like ‘Duck,’ it’s...
Maurkice Pouncey back at Steelers practice, ‘no regrets’ about incident with BrownsVideo
Banned from the Pittsburgh Steelers practice facility during his NFL-imposed suspension, Maurkice Pouncey sought other, lower-profile venues to keep in shape over the past 2 ½ weeks. “I was at Planet Fitness and LA Fitness running and talking to people,” the All-Pro center said Wednesday, the day he returned to...
Steelers’ Maurkice Pouncey activated from suspensionVideo
A day after being awarded a game ball for a game in which he did not play, Maurkice Pouncey is back with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The All-Pro center was activated Monday after serving a two-game suspension for his role in the Steelers’ on-field melee Nov. 14 with the Cleveland Browns....
Steelers win vs. Baker Mayfield’s Browns extends home winning streak vs. No. 1 overall QBs
In beating Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, the Pittsburgh Steelers extended a long, quirky and trivial winning streak. The Steelers’ 20-13 victory was their 12th consecutive at home against a team starting a quarterback drafted No. 1 overall. It’s the longest such streak in NFL history, and...
Is Steelers’ T.J. Watt building resume for NFL defensive player of the year?
Another game, another sack for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ T.J. Watt. They’ve been accumulating at a rate that’s marveled some teammates enough so that they are starting a campaign. “He’ll probably win defensive player of the year,” fellow outside linebacker Bud Dupree said. Sportsbettingdime.com tracks AP NFL defensive player of the...
Steelers Week 15 home game vs. Bills moved to night kickoff
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ Dec. 15 game against the Buffalo Bills has been flexed to “Sunday Night Football,” it was announced during this week’s NBC primetime broadcast. Originally scheduled for 1 p.m., the Steelers regular-season home finale will kick off at 8:20 p.m. NBC has rights to switch some late-season games,...
Devlin Hodges, James Washington form bond for Steelers
Tuesday, James Washington and Devlin Hodges went on a duck-hunting outing. Five days later, the duo went hunting for big plays. Hodges and Washington connected on three passes of least 30 yards for the Pittsburgh Steelers during a 20-13 victory against the Cleveland Browns. “I told James after the game...
Rookie running back Benny Snell again closes out a Steelers winVideo
For the second consecutive week, Benny Snell was a central figure in closing out a Pittsburgh Steelers victory. Snell had 55 rushing yards in the second half of Sunday’s 20-13 win against the Cleveland Browns, including 51 on 10 carries after his touchdown gave the Steelers the lead. “He is...
Steelers Joe Haden seals win against former team BrownsVideo
Joe Haden dropped two potential game-sealing interceptions last week. He spent time at practice making sure it wouldn’t happen again. It paid off — and against his former team of seven years, too. Haden’s interception of Baker Mayfield with 1 minute, 6 seconds to play ended the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 20-13...
‘Bulletin-board material’ for Steelers; Browns’ Freddie Kitchens: ‘I’d wear (T-shirt) again’Video
Of the “Pittsburgh started it” T-shirt Freddie Kitchens wore in public less than 48 hours before playing the Pittsburgh Steelers, guard David DeCastro had one question for the Cleveland Browns coach. “What are you thinking?” DeCastro said after his team beat the Browns, 20-13, Sunday. While DeCastro was asking that...
Steelers’ James Conner missing 4th game in last 5 weeks, out vs. Browns
James Conner and Artie Burns are out for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday against the Cleveland Browns. Conner will miss a game for the fourth time over the past five weeks because of a shoulder injury. He returned to practice in a limited capacity Thursday and Friday of this past...
Quarterback controversy something new for Steelers coach Mike TomlinVideo
With a Super Bowl ring to his credit, job security and a 20-4-1 career record against the Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin doesn’t have many reasons to be envious of Cleveland Browns coach Freddie Kitchens. Seven words Kitchens said during a conference call with Pittsburgh media this week certainly...
Browns coach Freddie Kitchens seen in ‘Pittsburgh started it’ T-shirt
Joking or not, Freddie Kitchens made a statement on what he thinks about the scuffle between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns two weeks ago. Two days before the rematch between the Steelers and Browns at Heinz Field, Kitchens was photographed Friday evening wearing a “Pittsburgh started it” T-shirt. The...
Four Downs: It’s early, but so far numbers add up for Steelers’ Devlin HodgesVideo
1. Nip and Duck In the equivalent of two NFL regular-season games, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Devlin Hodges has shown competency as an NFL quarterback. Cut through all the traditional numbers and the subjective analysis, and arguably the most objective measures for evaluating player performance come from footballoutsiders.com. The formulas for...
Steelers, Browns promise no funny business in rematchVideo
When the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns meet Sunday at Heinz Field, it will have been only 17 days since they last played. Just don’t expect this game to start like that one finished. “I don’t feel like it would,” Steelers linebacker Bud Dupree said, referring to the skirmish that...
Steelers’ usage of inside linebackers varies based on opponent, gameplanVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers have what they consider to be three starting inside linebackers. The division of labor at that position has proven to vary from week to week. Over the past four games, veteran Mark Barron and rookie Devin Bush twice had the most defensive snaps played among the team’s...
James Conner doubtful, JuJu Smith-Schuster out for Steelers vs. Browns
Limited to 13 snaps during November because of a shoulder injury, James Conner has a sliver of hope in returning to game action Sunday for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Pro Bowl running back practiced in a limited capacity Thursday and Friday and on the official injury report was given a...
In wake of benching, Mason Rudolph vows team-first attitude for Steelers
Mason Rudolph understood Mike Tomlin had a decision to make, and it was one that could adversely affect Rudolph. So when the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach told the second-year quarterback that Devlin Hodges was starting Sunday against the Cleveland Browns, Rudolph had no choice but to take it in stride....
In preparing for Browns, Steelers to again face one of NFL’s best running back duosVideo
Nick Chubb had more than 5,000 yards from scrimmage, including 4,769 rushing yards at Georgia. That he is the SEC’s No. 2 all-time leading rusher comes as no surprise to Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. “It seems like he was at Georgia forever,” Tomlin said, “and he did it for a...
Steelers’ Devlin Hodges balances taking risks with managing gamesVideo
Talk to any of Devlin Hodges’ current or former teammates or coaches — or even to Hodges himself — and they likely will say one of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ new starting quarterback’s greatest strengths is he plays fearlessly and with nothing to lose. Talk to Mike Tomlin this week, though,...
Steelers leading NFL in forced fumblesVideo
CINCINNATI — The Pittsburgh Steelers induced a fumble on the opening kickoff Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium. They got another on the next possession and an unofficial one in the third quarter (overturned by a penalty) before going for the kill shot with two game-sealing fumble recoveries in the fourth...
Steelers a home underdog to Browns for 1st time in 30 years
There’s perhaps no greater indignity for the Pittsburgh Steelers than losing to the Cleveland Browns. Two weeks after just that happened in Ohio, the oddsmakers are predicting it will happen again in Pittsburgh. And that is rare. How rare? The most recent time that the betting line for a Browns-Steelers...
‘Benny Snell football’ closes out win for Steelers in partial homecomingVideo
CINCINNATI — About two hours from where he went to high school and 90 minutes from where he starred in college, rookie Benny Snell had the best game of his NFL career Sunday. Snell had career highs in carries (21) and rushing yards (98) during the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 16-10 win...
