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Steelers offense boosted by resurgence of Diontae Johnson, Chase Claypool
After a December that largely wasn’t one to remember, Chase Claypool and Diontae Johnson on the first Sunday of the new year turned back the clock to earlier in the 2020 season when it comes to their receiving production for the Pittsburgh Steelers. “I felt like myself again,” Johnson said...
Baker Mayfield’s scrambling presents another challenge for Steelers in playoff rematch with Browns
Needing 2 yards for a first down that would clinch the franchise’s first playoff berth in 18 years, the Cleveland Browns didn’t just put the outcome in quarterback Baker Mayfield’s hands. They put it in his feet, too. A designed keeper around the right edge gained 3 yards and enabled...
Baker Mayfield pushes Browns back into playoffs, rematch with SteelersVideo
CLEVELAND — Baker Mayfield forcefully planted his Browns flag Sunday. With the weight of a city’s football hopes riding on his back, Mayfield delivered for Cleveland and its long-suffering fans. Coming off an embarrassing performance a week earlier, Mayfield, who came into the NFL vowing to return a fallen franchise...
Browns lose DE Oliver Vernon for playoffs with torn Achilles tendon
CLEVELAND — Cleveland Browns starting defensive end Olivier Vernon ruptured his Achilles tendon during Sunday’s playoff-clinching win over the Pittsburgh Steelers and is done for the season. Coach Kevin Stefanski said Monday that Vernon, who has played well in his second year with Cleveland, will have surgery. “Obviously, I’m very...
5 things we learned: Rudolph enjoys deep connection with Steelers receivers
Five things we learned from Browns 24, Steelers 22: 1. Third time’s the charm For someone who hadn’t started a game in more than a year and had seen only occasional mop-up work, Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph showed deft touch on his deep passes while throwing for a career-best 315...
First Call: Cleveland appears to jab JuJu; Steeler-Browns, Super Bowl odds revealed
Our first “First Call” of 2021 picks up on a familiar Steelers theme: opposing teams mocking JuJu Smith-Schuster. The Browns appeared to do that after their win over the Steelers Sunday. Meanwhile, T.J. Watt draws high praise from another NFL legend. The gambling line for Sunday’s Browns-Steelers rematch is out....
Mark Madden on Mason Rudolph: ‘I bet he starts at quarterback for a year or two’
Our first “Madden Monday” podcast of 2021 looks at the Steelers of 2022. Could they really open up that season with Mason Rudolph at quarterback? In the wake of Sunday’s performance against the Cleveland Browns, Mark Madden seems to think so. Madden isn’t saying that’s what he’d do. But he’s...
Tim Benz: Both sides of run game make Steelers ‘Airing of Grievances’ after Cleveland loss
Sunday’s 24-22 Steelers loss to Cleveland really didn’t matter. The two teams are just going to play again this weekend in the playoffs anyway. And the Festivus season has come and gone. But we continue with our weekly “Airing of Grievances” and “Feats of Strength” into 2021. As, of course,...
Steelers to open postseason vs. Browns on Sunday night
During a bizarre season in which they repeatedly worked on short weeks, the Pittsburgh Steelers will wait longer than anyone to open their postseason. The Steelers’ rematch with the Cleveland Browns will be seven days after the regular season-closing meeting between the longtime rivals, and it will kick off in...
Steelers’ Mason Rudolph takes big step forward in start vs. Browns
If Mason Rudolph ever achieves his goal of becoming a full-time starting quarterback in the NFL, he certainly will face games with more on the line than he did Sunday in Cleveland. But it’s what Rudolph did during the high-stakes moments in a low-stakes game that are so encouraging for...
Alex Highsmith gets 1 of 4 sacks for Steelers in season finale against Browns
CLEVELAND — The pressure Alex Highsmith has applied to opposing quarterbacks since replacing Bud Dupree last month paid dividends Sunday for the Pittsburgh Steelers rookie third-round pick. Although the Steelers lost their regular-season finale, 24-22, to the Cleveland Browns, Highsmith set a career high with nine tackles, and he had...
Mark Madden: Steelers should have advantage over Browns in rematch
Nothing compares to this time of year’s crisp, cold air … except refreshing Steelers notes! Yo, Baker Mayfield … the big kids show up at the playground next week, and it’s not your playground. • There is plenty of time to preview the playoff rematch between the Steelers and Cleveland,...
Could Steelers be unveiling a Josh Dobbs package in playoffs?
Was Mike Tomlin just playing coy in a show of gamesmanship? Or was Sunday’s game a trial run in deploying Josh Dobbs into a small portion of the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive gameplan as they embark on the playoffs? “It is a possibility,” Tomlin said when asked that after the Steelers’...
Steelers escape finale with no significant injuries, per Mike TomlinVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers lost Sunday’s game, but they were winners in what was arguably the most important regard: with the playoffs a week away, no players emerged from this regular-season finale with injuries, per coach Mike Tomlin. “Bumps and bruises associated with play, nothing of any significance to speak of...
Mason Rudolph, Myles Garrett chat cordially after Steelers-Browns game
Mason Rudolph, Myles Garrett and several other members of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns spent much of this past week telling everybody they had moved past the ugly helmet-swinging incident and even uglier accusations of a racial slur that marred the teams’ most recent meeting in Cleveland and its...
Steelers lose regular-season finale to Browns; playoff rematch awaits
CLEVELAND — With the backups taking center stage, the Pittsburgh Steelers nearly completed a comeback from a 15-point deficit in the fourth quarter Sunday before losing to the Cleveland Browns, 24-22, at FirstEnergy Stadium. The varsity will see if it can fare any better next weekend in a rematch at...
Browns down 2 more coaches for Steelers game because of covid issuesVideo
CLEVELAND — Down at least five players and three assistant coaches, the Cleveland Browns will try to become a playoff team again. Unable to practice most of the week because of covid-19 cases and protocols, the Browns said Saturday that offensive line coach Bill Callahan and assistant line coach Scott...
Steelers’ Cameron Heyward, T.J. Watt, Maurkice Pouncey out vs. Browns
Three more Pittsburgh Steelers players were downgraded to out Saturday and will not make the trip to Cleveland for the regular-season finale Sunday against the Browns. Defensive tackle Cameron Heyward, outside linebacker T.J. Watt and center Maurkice Pouncey will not play against the Browns, joining quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, kicker Chris...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Mason Rudolph gets chance to prove his worth to Steelers
Cleveland’s Myles Garrett and the Steelers’ Mason Rudolph did not verbally renew last year’s on-field hostilities this week. The presumption is that each has matured, and moved on. The reality is that Garrett lied about what happened. It was a total fabrication. Rudolph allegedly directing a racial slur toward Garrett...
Steelers place 3 players on covid-19 list, including starters Joe Haden, Eric Ebron
Cornerback Joe Haden, tight end Eric Ebron and outside linebacker Cassius Marsh have been placed on the reserve/covid-19 list, meaning they won’t play for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the season finale Sunday at Cleveland and likely won’t return until after the team’s playoff opener next weekend. ESPN reported that Haden...
Not quite ‘from another planet,’ but Steelers’ T.J. Watt having award-worthy seasonVideo
Situated off of Interstate 94 less than a half hour west of Milwaukee on the route to Madison, Pewaukee, Wisc., is like a lot of other towns in the upper Midwest. Mostly in that its 14,000-plus inhabitants are, well, human, and that each of them (presumably) was born on Earth....
Four Downs: Steelers games feature an abundance of 3-and-outs, puntsVideo
1. Three-and-rout Games involving the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2020 have featured more punts and more three-and-outs than games involving any other NFL team this season. And it’s not close. The Steelers offense leads the league in three-and-outs (47), as defined by possessions that fail to get a first down and...
Browns get to practice as ‘weight’ of Steelers game sinks inVideo
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Browns rang in the new year by practicing. With everything else that transpired over the past week, that was a major victory. They’ll go for an even bigger one Sunday. After days of positive covid-19 tests, disruptions and delays, the Browns found some normalcy and reopened...
Chance to play, not rematch with Browns, motivating Steelers QB Rudolph
As fate would have it, the biggest game of Mason Rudolph’s season is also the biggest game for the Cleveland Browns in more than a decade. Despite the sordid history between the two, the latter is having little effect in motivating the former. “I really could care less who the...
Steelers’ Terrell Edmunds, Chris Boswell out with injuries vs. Browns
On top of some veteran players who will be held out for rest, two prominent Pittsburgh Steelers will not play Sunday because of injuries. Starting strong safety Terrell Edmunds and kicker Chris Boswell were ruled out of the regular-season finale at the Cleveland Browns. A shoulder injury will cause Edmunds...
