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Steelers injury reports: Joe Haden has sprained AC joint, JuJu Smith-Schuster’s toe ‘OK’
Of the four former Pro Bowl Pittsburgh Steelers who were injured during the fourth quarter of Sunday’s season-opening loss, three were in the locker room at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on Monday afternoon. Cornerback Joe Haden (shoulder), linebacker T.J. Watt (hip) and receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster (toe) were spotted — seemingly...
Steelers’ Chuks Okorafor unsure why he was Sunday inactive, takes it in stride
Sunday, for the first time in his NFL career, Chuks Okorafor was not activated to play during a Pittsburgh Steelers game. The 2018 third-round pick, apparently, has been surpassed on the offensive tackle depth chart by Zach Banner. “It is what it is,” Okorafor said Monday at UPMC Rooney Sports...
John Steigerwald: Antonio Brown looks crazy like a fox
Antonio Brown got the last laugh. He laughed at the Steelers and laughed at the Oakland Raiders and he laughed at the National Football League, and if you think he cares about the $15 million in guaranteed money he left behind in Oakland on Saturday, he’s laughing at you, too....
Steelers trade No. 3 quarterback Josh Dobbs to Jaguars for 5th-round pickVideo
A week after Mason Rudolph was named backup quarterback, Josh Dobbs’ tenure with the Pittsburgh Steelers is over. Dobbs was traded to the Jacksonville Jaguars for a fifth-round pick Monday afternoon, ending his tenure with the Steelers at 2 ½ years since he was drafted with a 2017 fourth-round pick....
How did Steelers fall so flat vs. Patriots? Tim Benz, Mark Madden analyze
Who’s to blame for the Steelers’ season-opening blowout loss to the Super Bowl champions? A little bit of everyone. TribLIVE columnists Tim Benz and Mark Madden break down Sunday night’s Steelers disaster in Foxborough, laying blame on everything from the game plan, to the inexperience on defense, to a lack...
Tim Benz, Mark Madden recap Steelers’ ugly loss to Patriots
It’s time for this week’s “Madden Monday” with Mark Madden of 105.9 the X. And it’s ugly. How could it be anything else after that disaster in New England? The Steelers lost to the Patriots 33-3. The passing game was awful. The run game was non-existent. The play calling was...
Tim Benz: First airing of grievances is deep after Steelers debacle vs. PatriotsVideo
We pick up where we left off in 2018 at Breakfast With Benz. Whenever the Pittsburgh Steelers lose — and even sometimes when they win — we post our “Airing of Grievances.” It was easier than ever to construct after Sunday’s season-opening 33-3 loss to the New England Patriots. Well,...
5 things we learned from Steelers’ season-opening loss to PatriotsVideo
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Five things we learned from the Patriots’ 33-3 win over the Steelers in the season opener: 1. Shortage of yards The Steelers came up short in one crucial area, which made for a long night against the New England Patriots in their season opener at Gillette Stadium....
Kevin Gorman: Sound the alarms. Steelers looked lost without Antonio BrownVideo
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. What we wanted to see more than anything from the Pittsburgh Steelers in their season opener was how their passing game would be affected by the absence of All-Pro wide receiver Antonio Brown. This debut was a disaster, to put it mildly. That Brown orchestrated an offseason trade...
Devin Bush has ‘quite the experience’ in 1st NFL start for Steelers
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It wasn’t the type of NFL debut Devin Bush envisioned when he was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the No. 10 overall pick of the draft. No rookie thrust into the starting lineup for his first game expects to be on the wrong side of a...
Kevin Gorman’s Take 5: Patriots show Steelers how far they are from Super BowlVideo
Not only did the Pittsburgh Steelers open the season amid the banner celebration of the reigning Super Bowl champions but in the shadow of the New England Patriots signing superstar wide receiver Antonio Brown. That was the talk of the Sunday Night Football telecast, where analyst Tony Dungy was critical...
Steelers throttled by Patriots in season openerVideo
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Death, taxes and the Steelers losing to Tom Brady at Gillette Stadium. Apologies to Benjamin Franklin’s idiom, but there is a third certainty in this world, and it was put on display yet again Sunday night at the home of the New England Patriots. The Patriots raised...
With Sean Davis out, Kameron Kelly could make first NFL start for Steelers at Patriots
Just five months after the league folded, Alliance of American Football alum Kameron Kelly is expected to start in his first career NFL game. Kelly could replace the injured Sean Davis, who is out with an ankle injury, at free safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers against the New England Patriots...
Tim Benz: Give it time. Antonio Brown will blow up in New England, tooVideo
One thing is obvious with this whole Antonio Brown saga. It’s all Derek Carr’s fault. Hey, if it was all Ben Roethlisberger’s fault in Pittsburgh — as the national media kept telling us over and over again — it must have been all Carr’s fault in Oakland, right? Knock on...
Steelers defense searching for right recipe to beat Tom Brady in Foxborough
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Age hasn’t slowed New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Perhaps the Pittsburgh Steelers defense will have better luck than Father Time. Entering the season opener Sunday night at Gillette Stadium, the Steelers are hoping to keep the 42-year-old Brady and the Patriots off-balance with a strategy that...
Kevin Gorman’s Take 5: Connecting the dots on the Steelers’ Antonio Brown trade
It’s amazing how trading Antonio Brown went from a bad deal to a great deal to a really bad deal for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Narratives in the NFL can change as quickly as Brown changes teams — and he’s on his third before the start of the 2019 season. I...
Browns join fray in wide-open AFC North
BALTIMORE — Picking the order of finish in the AFC North is as a difficult as getting a grip on a wet, bouncing football. The division features two new coaches, a pair of gritty second-year quarterbacks, a traditional powerhouse on the rebound, and an unlikely contender that hasn’t reached the...
Kevin Gorman: Antonio Brown playing for Patriots is stranger than fictionVideo
When Antonio Brown mocked Mike Tomlin as the Pittsburgh Steelers coach was addressing the superstar wide receiver going AWOL, it should have been the seminal moment of his NFL career. Through bizarre behavior that should have screamed for buyers to beware, Brown orchestrated a trade in March to Oakland only...
Four Downs: Steelers embrace 5-WR sets
Four Downs is a weekly feature composed of quick-hit thoughts and analysis on the Steelers and the NFL. 1. High five (wides) Lacking depth at tight end? Feel good about everyone in the wide receivers position room? The logical and intuitive answer is to use more wide receivers and fewer...
Steelers add WR Johnny Holton to active roster, release rookie LB Tuzar Skipper
The Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday signed a veteran wide receiver who had recently been released by the Oakland Raiders. No, not that one. Veteran receiver and special teams standout Johnny Holton was promoted to the Steelers’ 53-man roster from the practice squad. The speedster could serve as the No. 6...
Kevin Gorman: Steelers find security not in superstars but by drawing a lineVideo
So much of the hoopla surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers has been about the All-Pros they lost in the offseason, Le’Veon Bell to free agency and Antonio Brown through a trade. While they were two of the NFL’s most prolific players at their respective positions, the Steelers believed that they could...
Trib writers offer predictions on Steelers, NFL
Have questions about the Steelers? Our staff insiders have answers. They spent countless hours watching practice and interviewing players and coaches during training camp and the preseason. Now, find out what they think will happen this season with the black and gold. The Trib’s beat reporters and columnists offer their...
Steelers have tradition of losing to Tom Brady at Gillette StadiumVideo
Aside from a 10-story lighthouse beyond one of the end zones and adjacent pedestrian overpass modeled after Boston’s iconic Longfellow Bridge, Gillette Stadium has no distinguishing features. The New England Patriots’ home field ranks 22nd among the 31 NFL venues in seating capacity, and it will be right in the...
Mark Madden: No need for Steelers to treat Devin Bush with kid gloves
How much rookie inside linebacker Devin Bush plays Sunday at Gillette Stadium won’t determine who wins the game between the Steelers and New England. Unless it does. At the very least, it’s an interesting sidebar that showcases the Steelers’ conservative (perhaps antiquated) philosophy of putting rookies in safe, limited roles...
Johnny Holton happy to stick with Steelers on practice squad, staying ready for call-up
Turns out, the delay in naming Johnny Holton to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ practice squad earlier this week was a simple matter of family and logistics. A veteran of parts of three seasons and 32 NFL games with the Oakland Raiders, Holton opened eyes with the Steelers during a strong preseason...
