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Kevin Gorman: Steelers will watch playoff hopes on scoreboard again in season finale
The Pittsburgh Steelers ended last season clinging to their playoff hopes while watching — and rooting for — the Cleveland Browns to beat the Baltimore Ravens on the Heinz Field video board. That the Steelers will end this season doing some scoreboard watching once again is almost as inconceivable as...
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...
Kevin Gorman: After regaining Steelers’ trust, Chris Boswell is kicking for keeps
Chris Boswell is prepared if this season finale ends the same way it did last year, with the Pittsburgh Steelers kicking a winning field goal for their ninth victory. This time, Boswell would get to be the hero. Even if that’s the last thing he wants Sunday afternoon against the...
Steelers rookies Benny Snell, Kerrith Whyte ready to take over again for injured James Conner
With James Conner unable to finish the regular season with a thigh injury, the Pittsburgh Steelers will turn back to a committee approach Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens. Jaylen Samuels, Trey Edmunds and rookies Benny Snell Jr. and Kerrith Whyte will fill various roles if the Steelers stick to the...
Ex-Steeler Antonio Brown gets workout with New Orleans Saints
Mr. Big Chest is in the Big Easy — at least for one day. Former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown, who is a free agent while the NFL investigates sexual misconduct claims against him, spent Friday at a tryout conducted by the New Orleans Saints. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported...
Devin Bush honored with Joe Greene award as top Steelers rookieVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers took the unorthodox approach in the NFL Draft by trading up 10 spots in the first round to select inside linebacker Devin Bush with the No. 10 overall pick. Bush rewarded them by setting a franchise-rookie record with 97 tackles with one game remaining in the regular...
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...
Kevin Gorman: In case of emergency, Steelers hope Paxton Lynch can show QB pedigreeVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers are down to a pair of polar opposites at quarterback in Devlin Hodges and Paxton Lynch, and the latter is everything the former is not. Where the 6-foot-7, 245-pound Lynch has prototypical size for a pocket passer, Hodges is shorter at 6-1, 209. Where Lynch was a...
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...
Linebacker T.J. Watt named Steelers MVPVideo
As much as the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive players relished T.J. Watt earning the team’s most valuable player award Thursday, they are more interested in whether he can claim a bigger accolade in about six weeks. At the NFL Honors ceremony Feb. 1, the eve of the Super Bowl, the NFL...
Steelers’ Ryan Switzer, Roosevelt Nix designated to return from injured reserve
If the Pittsburgh Steelers make the AFC playoffs and advance to the divisional round, they could get fullback Roosevelt Nix and wide receiver Ryan Switzer back on the active roster. The Steelers announced Thursday that Nix and Switzer have been designated to return from injured reserve, which paves the way...
CB Steve Nelson doesn’t practice for Steelers with groin injury
While the Pittsburgh Steelers’ opponent on Sunday, the Baltimore Ravens, enjoyed a day off on Christmas – a byproduct of earning home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs – coach Mike Tomlin put his players through a 90-minute practice Wednesday at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. Cornerback Steve Nelson was new to...
Devlin Hodges looking to bounce back for Steelers after brief benchingVideo
What transpired in the second quarter Sunday at MetLife Stadium was foreign to Devlin Hodges. As a four-year starter, three-time conference player of the year, FCS career passing yardage leader and Walter Payton Award winner in 2018, Hodges never was pulled from a game because of poor performance. It finally...
Ben Roethlisberger vows to ‘come back stronger’ for Steelers in 2020
Ben Roethlisberger gave Pittsburgh Steelers fans a Christmas gift on Wednesday when he vowed to resume his football career in 2020, shooting down a report that cast doubt about his football future. Underneath a family photo posted on his website, bigben7.com, Roethlisberger wrote that he is “working hard and more...
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...
Kevin Gorman: When it comes to QBs, Steelers are on Island of Misfit ToysVideo
This season Mike Tomlin calls a journey started for the Pittsburgh Steelers with Ben Roethlisberger as their starting quarterback, Mason Rudolph as backup and neither Devlin Hodges nor Paxton Lynch on an NFL roster or practice squad. That the Steelers go into their season finale with Hodges as the starter...
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....
Steelers place Mason Rudolph on IR, sign ex-Ohio State QB J.T. Barrett to practice squad
When the Pittsburgh Steelers make a final push for the playoffs on Sunday at Baltimore, they won’t have second-year quarterback Mason Rudolph around to rescue them. Rudolph’s season officially came to an end when the Steelers placed him on the injured reserve list Tuesday with a left shoulder injury he...
Kevin Gorman’s Who runs the North?: Road to the Super Bowl goes through the GrinchVideo
The Baltimore Ravens don’t just run the AFC North. For the first time, the AFC playoffs run through Baltimore. The Ravens didn’t just win their 11th consecutive game to clinch the conference’s top seed and home field throughout the AFC playoffs for the first time. They eliminated the Cleveland Browns...
