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Troy Fautanu bio: Steelers’ 1st-round pick (20th overall) in 2024 NFL draft
Troy Fautanu First-round pick, No. 20 overall Offensive tackle, Washington 6-foot-4, 317 pounds Stats: Washington last season ranked 13th in the country in scoring offense and total offense and No. 2 nationally in passing yards per game. Hometown: Henderson, Nev. Tidbits: Was the left tackle for all 15 games for...
On Sports: Steelers won’t pick up 5th-year option on Justin Fields; Ben Roethlisberger celebrates draft anniversaryVideo
Did anyone believe it was prudent to exercise a 2025 contract option valued at more than $25 million for a player entering this season as a backup who was given up on by his previous team in exchange for nothing guaranteed more than a sixth-round pick? No? Some might have...
Chris Adamski’s Steelers mock draft: Doubling up on Georgia tackles… and ex-Cornell players?
How about a redux at one of the sport’s most important positions — a spot that’s prominent among the in-the-trenches group along the line of scrimmage that team management is known to covet? Likewise, how about another type of sequel? Call it, “National-Champion Dawg, 2.0.” When it comes to the...
Steelers notes: ‘Top 30’ visits to facility just 1 part of Mike Tomlin’s draft evaluation process
After a fourth question about official pre-draft “top 30” visits the Pittsburgh Steelers host, coach Mike Tomlin had heard enough. “I think you guys,” Tomlin said, referring to the roughly two dozen media members at Monday’s news conference at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, “are probably making a little bit more...
Penn State center Hunter Nourzad, ILB Junior Colson among the final official pre-draft visitors to SteelersVideo
For their final official prospect visits in advance of next week’s draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers on Wednesday hosted yet another center, a second one of the top available inside linebackers in as many days and a British former boxer and rugby player. Travis Clayton, a 22-year-old who took part in...
Steelers host top center prospect Graham Barton, have official visit with ILB for 1st timeVideo
With the official pre-draft visits winding down, the Pittsburgh Steelers finally hosted a prospect that is not among their top four positions of obvious need on Tuesday. They did, however, meet with yet another potential draftee at what is the most glaring hole on their roster. North Carolina State inside...
Steelers host 2 more O-line draft prospects, including projected 1st-rounder Troy FautanuVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers continued to signal their intention to prioritize the offensive line during next week’s draft, hosting Washington’s Troy Fautanu and South Dakota State’s Mason McCormick for official pre-draft visits Monday. Fautanu was a two-year college starter at left tackle but also has experience at guard, a position some...
Fiercely competitive Central Catholic grad Neal Shipley makes cut in Masters debut
Central Catholic graduate Neal Shipley stepped onto the tee box at the first hole at Augusta National — a 445-yard par-4 named “Tea Olive” — about to embark on the most high-profile round of his golfing career Thursday afternoon. He promptly launched his drive deep into the woods to the...
Steelers bring back journeyman kicker Matthew Wright
Matthew Wright is back for a fourth tour with the Pittsburgh Steelers. A journeyman veteran kicker, Wright signed with the Steelers on Tuesday. He initially joined the team as an undrafted free agent out of UCF in 2019, returned to the practice squad in 2020 to appear in three games...
Steelers host consensus top center, Oregon’s Jackson Powers-Johnson, for pre-draft visitVideo
Taking a closer look at the consensus best player at the position that is their most glaring need, the Pittsburgh Steelers on Wednesday hosted Oregon center Jackson Powers-Johnson for an official pre-draft visit. The 6-foot-3, 328-pound Powers-Johnson last season won the Rimington Trophy recognizing the top center in college football,...
Likely 1st-round WR Adonai Mitchell among official pre-draft visits to SteelersVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers hosted yet another wide receiver for an official pre-draft visit Tuesday. And this one was big — figuratively and literally. Former Georgia and Texas star Adonai Mitchell stands 6-foot-2, 205 pounds — and he is widely projected as a first-round pick. Mitchell ran the 40-yard dash in...
European power Liverpool to face Spanish club Betis at Acrisure Stadium
One of the world’s biggest brands for the beautiful game is coming to Pittsburgh. Perennial English soccer power Liverpool FC will face Spanish club Real Betis in an exhibition July 26 at Acrisure Stadium. The game — billed “The Iron City Showdown” — melds two of Pittsburgh’s pro sports teams...
Rutgers CB Max Melton, Iowa DT Logan Lee hosted by Steelers for official pre-draft visitsVideo
Rutgers cornerback Max Melton and Iowa defensive tackle Logan Lee were guests of the Pittsburgh Steelers at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex for official pre-draft visits Monday. A four-year college starter, Melton (5-foot-11, 187 pounds) is projected as a likely slot/nickel in the NFL. A compilation of mock drafts at nflmockdraftdatabase.com...
Steelers sign tight end/H-back MyCole PruittVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers continued to add pieces to their offensive skill group in free agency, signing tight end/H-back MyCole Pruitt. Pruitt is a 10-year NFL veteran who has been acquired by a team whose plays have been called by Arthur Smith for a third time. Smith was the Tennessee Titans’...
Highly touted CB Nate Wiggins, Christian McCaffrey’s brother among Steelers draft visits
One of the top cornerbacks available plus the brother of one of the NFL’s most recognizable players were among those hosted by the Pittsburgh Steelers for official pre-draft visits Thursday. Clemson’s Nate Wiggins is the type of rangy (6-foot-1, 173 pounds) cornerback the Steelers have traditionally coveted, and he’s projected...
Mercyhurst athletics moves up to Division I, will compete in Northeast Conference
Mercyhurst is bumping up its athletics program. The private Catholic-affiliated institution in Erie announced Thursday that it accepted an invitation into the Division I Northeast Conference, effective this fall for the 2024-25 academic year. With the exception of the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams, Lakers athletics currently competes at...
Pitt’s Matt Goncalves, M.J. Devonshire among draft prospects hosted by Steelers
Pitt alumni M.J. Devonshire and Matt Goncalves were among four NFL Draft prospects hosted by the Pittsburgh Steelers for official visits Wednesday. Devonshire, a cornerback from Aliquippa, and Goncalves, a tackle, are projected to be third-day picks in the draft later this month. They were joined at UPMC Rooney Sports...
Penn State’s Daqueon Hardy, intriguing WR Malachi Corley among draft prospects hosted by Steelers
A player who might be one of the top 10 wide receivers taken and a former Penn Hills and Penn State defensive back were among those hosted by the Pittsburgh Steelers for an official draft visit Tuesday. Western Kentucky receiver Malachi Corley, Penn State nickel/slot corner Daequan Hardy, Florida State...
Steelers notes: OT Dan Moore awarded performance-based pay bump for his play in 2023
Dan Moore Jr. fended off a first-round pick to hold on to the starting left tackle job for the Pittsburgh Steelers last season. He has been rewarded financially for doing so. Moore was among the top 25 NFL players who were compensated the most from a league fund created to...
Steelers agree to terms with veteran WR Van Jefferson
On a day of a public changing of the guard at quarterback, the Pittsburgh Steelers began to reassemble the weapons available to new passer Russell Wilson. The Steelers agreed to terms with veteran wide receiver Van Jefferson to a one-year contract, a league source confirmed late Friday. A five-year NFL...
From a hero’s welcome to a one-way ticket out of town, Kenny Pickett era brief for Steelers
The satisfaction and pride were palpable on the faces of both Kenny Pickett and Mike Tomlin the afternoon of April 29, 2022. The duo was standing off to the far left of Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II, who was behind a podium at the front of a large room...
New Steeler Patrick Queen: I’ve grown – and not just as a product of playing with Roquan Smith
The two newest Pittsburgh Steelers defensive players played together with the rival Baltimore Ravens. But because their professional paths coincided only during the 2020 and 2021 seasons, the lower-profile of the two has a unique perspective on his old/new teammate. That’s instructive, because Patrick Queen acknowledged he didn’t begin to...
Steelers changing with times in approach to contracts, free agency
There was once a time via unofficial team policy that the Pittsburgh Steelers refused to give one-year contracts in free agency, instead insisting on multi-year deals. For most of the three-decade history of NFL free agency, the Steelers never extended/renegotiated the contracts of non-quarterbacks before the final year of a...
Steelers agree to terms with safety DeShon Elliott
The Pittsburgh Steelers continued to plug holes in free agency, agreeing to terms with veteran safety DeShon Elliott on Thursday. A league source confirmed the two-year, $6 million contract that was first reported by Bleacher Report. A six-year NFL veteran, the 6-foot-1, 210-pound Elliott started all 16 games he played...
Adjusted for cap inflation, where does Patrick Queen’s contract rank among Steelers’ richest?
The three-year, $41 million contract that playmaking inside linebacker Patrick Queen agreed to with the Pittsburgh Steelers this week is — easily — the most valuable given out by the team to an external unrestricted free agent over the three decades since the NFL adopted true free agency. In raw...
