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Veteran CB Darius Slay a healthy inactive for Steelers
Six-time Pro Bowl cornerback Darius Slay has been benched by the Pittsburgh Steelers. The 34-year-old veteran was designated as a healthy inactive for Sunday’s home game against the Buffalo Bills. Slay was a stalwart on Philadelphia Eagles teams that won two of the past three NFC championships and claimed the...
Steelers 4 Downs: Aaron Rodgers throwing short, shorter, shortest — and not downfield
1. No depth While much of the blame for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defeat in Chicago last weekend has fallen at the feet of backup quarterback Mason Rudolph and his throw-short attack, the Steelers have been playing it safe in the passing game all season. No quarterback in the NFL has...
Scouting the Bills: Steelers opponent ranks among top 5 in NFL in points, yards
SCOUTING THE BILLS Last meeting Bills beat Steelers, 31-17, on Jan. 15, 2024, in Buffalo (playoffs). Key matchup Steelers ILBs vs. Bills QB Josh Allen Josh Allen figures to take over as the NFL’s leading rusher among quarterbacks with 13 yards Sunday. He would pass the recently benched Justin Fields...
Veteran Andrus Peat the surprise choice to start at left tackle for Steelers
He’s making his first start of the season in only his second game of 2025, and he’s doing so at a position he hasn’t started at during a regular-season game for almost two full years. And he’s doing it all while tasked with protecting the blind side of an injury-compromised...
Steelers injury report: Alex Highsmith returns; DK Metcalf, Joey Porter Jr. to play vs. Bills
Aaron Rodgers isn’t the only prominent Pittsburgh Steelers starter set to return to the lineup this week. After a two-game absence because of a pectoral injury, outside linebacker Alex Highsmith on Friday was given the green light to play in Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills. “It feels great to...
‘All systems go’: Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers will start Sunday vs. Bills
“All systems go.” Using that phrase, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin announced Aaron Rodgers will start Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills. The four-time NFL MVP quarterback was a full participant at Friday’s practice, Tomlin said, and will carry no injury designation on the status report for Sunday’s crucial AFC...
Steelers notes: Andrus Peat prepared to step in at tackle; Pat Freiermuth honored
For many of the 127 games Andrus Peat has played in the NFL, he’s been at offensive tackle. Though Peat has much more regularly practiced at guard since joining the Pittsburgh Steelers, out of necessity, his focus has shifted to tackle this week. “Whatever the team needs to win,” Peat...
Steelers injury report: DK Metcalf does not practice; Alex Highsmith, Joey Porter Jr. limited
Wide receiver DK Metcalf sat out Pittsburgh Steelers practice Wednesday, three days after suffering an ankle injury during a loss at the Chicago Bears. Coach Mike Tomlin on Tuesday indicated Metcalf’s ailment likely would not prevent him from playing in Sunday’s home game against the Buffalo Bills. In a similar...
Veteran Calvin Anderson ready to start at left tackle if Broderick Jones can’t play
For the first time in five years, Calvin Anderson began the 2024 regular season not on an NFL roster. He ended the season as the Steelers left tackle in a playoff game. A six-year NFL veteran of 58 games and 14 starts, Anderson is more than capable of stepping in...
Steelers keep positive outlook on playoff hopes despite seeing lead in AFC North evaporate
Last season as he celebrated Thanksgiving, Brandin Echols was playing for a 3-9 football team. The year before that, a Black Friday defeat dropped his team to 4-7. As a rookie in 2021, if Echols, likewise, looked at the standings on Turkey Day, he’d have seen he was on a...
No Aaron Rodgers update — but Steelers declare Cam Heyward, Darius Slay healthy for Bears
Aaron Rodgers remains, officially, questionable to play Sunday. But there is no longer any question that two other Pittsburgh Steelers starters will be in uniform to face the Chicago Bears. Via a team spokesman, the Steelers revealed early Saturday afternoon that defensive tackle Cameron Heyward and cornerback Darius Slay had...
Steelers 4 Downs: In Bears matchup, 1 team gets to QB quickly, the other doesn’t
1. Race to the QB When it comes to pressuring opposing quarterbacks, the Pittsburgh Steelers aren’t elite. But when they’re successful on the pass rush, they are doing it quickly. Certainly moreso than their opponent Sunday. While according to NFL Next Gen Stats, the Steelers are generating pressure at a...
Scouting the Bears: Steelers opponent adept at creating turnovers, limiting giveaways
SCOUTING THE BEARS Last meeting Steelers beat Bears, 29-27, on Nov. 8, 2021, in Pittsburgh Key matchup Steelers defense vs. Bears RBs D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai Chicago’s two-headed rushing tandem has combined for 30 carries of 10 or more yards this season. Swift’s 21 such gains are tied for...
Alex Highsmith doubtful, Cam Heyward questionable for Steelers on Sunday vs. Bears
It does not appear as if Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker Alex Highsmith will return to game action this week. And, suddenly, the status of a defensive co-captain for Sunday’s game at the Chicago Bears is in question, too. Highsmith was given a “doubtful” designation on the league-mandated status report Friday...
Bears will be without all 3 starting linebackers Sunday vs. Steelers
Whoever starts at quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday has caught a break in regards to the defense he faces. The Chicago Bears ruled out all three of their starting linebackers for Sunday’s home game against the Steelers at Soldier Field. Tremaine Edmunds, T.J. Edwards and Noah Sewell did...
Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers listed as questionable to play Sunday vs. Bears
His future Hall of Fame quarterback was out on the practice field Friday, taking some first-team reps just five days after suffering a wrist fracture. Not that Mike Tomlin would admit it made him feel any better about Sunday’s game. “I’m not in the comfort business,” the Pittsburgh Steelers coach...
Steelers’ pass rush prepares to bring down ‘magician’ Bears QB Caleb Williams
The reviews are in. That hot new illusionist? He’s captivating the country. “He’s been a magician,” Cameron Heyward said. “This guy,” added Teryl Austin, “is an escape artist.” And after recent tour stops in locales such as Minneapolis, Cincinnati and Baltimore, this magic man is back home for the next...
Finally admitting his weight — 311 pounds — Darnell Washington is making plays for the Steelers
As a 6-foot-7 and a newly confirmed 311 pounds, Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Darnell Washington always has been one of the biggest humans in any game he has played. As such, he, by now, well knows that opponents are expecting him to turn to his size and physicality when he...
Alex Highsmith returns to Steelers practice; Jaylen Warren, Ke’Shawn Williams upgraded
Alex Highsmith returned to practice Thursday. The true test won’t come until Friday, however, in regards to his availability for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ upcoming game. “It feels good walking around,” Highsmith said after Thursday’s practice at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, “but I haven’t tested it in regards to truly getting...
Steelers injury report: Darius Slay practices fully; Alex Highsmith, Jaylen Warren do not
Veteran cornerback Darius Slay made it through a full practice Wednesday for the first time since suffering a concussion 10 days prior, according to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ league-mandated injury report. Slay remains in NFL concussion protocol, but that he has advanced to practicing fully is an indication he can and...
Steelers notes: Cory Trice Jr. out for the season after activation window expires
An injury has cost once-promising Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Cory Trice Jr. another full season. A 4 p.m. deadline Wednesday to activate Trice to the 53-man roster passed, meaning by rule, Trice will not play for the Steelers this season. The 6-foot-3, 206-pound cornerback opened the regular season on the injured...
Steelers legend L.C. Greenwood advances in voting for Hall of Fame induction
In regards to one group eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Pittsburgh Steelers legend L.C. Greenwood has made the cut from 182 all the way down to nine. A charter member of the original “Steel Curtain” defensive line that fronted one of the greatest defenses in NFL history,...
5 things we learned from Steelers’ win vs. Bengals: Mason Rudolph excels on 3rd downs
What a kindergartner might best learn from Sunday’s Pittsburgh Steelers-Cincinnati Bengals game: Don’t spit on another human. What the rest of us might learn from the Steelers’ 34-12 victory: 1. Third-and-Mason The Steelers had been struggling mightily on third downs for a full month. Until Mason Rudolph came in, that...
Steelers RB Jaylen Warren, return man Ke’Shawn Williams leave game with injuries
Aaron Rodgers wasn’t the only Pittsburgh Steelers starter to fail to complete Sunday’s victory against the Cincinnati Bengals because of injury. Running back Jaylen Warren suffered an ankle injury during the third quarter, and return man Ke’Shawn Williams an apparent concussion during the first quarter. Neither played after that, although...
Ja’Marr Chase’s apparent spit toward Jalen Ramsey stokes Steelers-Bengals rivalry
Fair to say the temperature of the Pittsburgh Steelers-Cincinnati Bengals rivalry has been turned back up. It’s been seven years since the likes of Vontaze Burfict and Pac-Man Jones were wearing orange and getting under the Steelers’ skin, but an ejection brought on by a spitting incident reignited some AFC...
