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5 things to watch for as Steelers face Texans to open up preseason playVideo
Many will say they don’t find much value in preseason games. But rest assured, there are dozens in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room who view Friday’s 7 p.m. game in a completely opposite way. To those on the roster bubble fighting for their football lives, Friday is one of only...
Steelers inside the ropes: Running game takes center stage as O-line imposes will on defense
Be it the influence of new coordinator Arthur Smith, the culmination of two full years of the Omar Khan-Andy Weidl regime or just where the pendulum is swinging with these Pittsburgh Steelers, it’s become a trend that when the pads come on during training camp, so does an effective running...
Steelers camp report: Even after ruled out for game, several vets go through padded practiceVideo
Early Wednesday morning, coach Mike Tomlin announced that seven of his most established veteran players would not participate in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ preseason opener Friday. Ninety minutes later, though, six of those seven took part in a fully-padded, tackling-allowed practice at Saint Vincent College. Tomlin said that quarterback Russell Wilson,...
Steelers sign rookie ILB Easton Gibbs
Two days before their preseason opener, the Pittsburgh Steelers swapped inside linebackers in signing rookie Easton Gibbs on Wednesday. Gibbs (6-foot, 230 pounds) went undrafted out of Wyoming but was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent. The Seahawks, though, placed him on the on the non-football...
Steelers inside the ropes: Interceptions prominent as reserve defensive backs have their day
Ben Roethlisberger once left Saint Vincent College proud of himself for accomplishing his self-dictated goal for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2017 training camp. “Didn’t throw an interception all camp,” Big Ben beamed when camp broke that August. “So that was good.” Not so good, then, during Tuesday’s practice was when Steelers...
Rookie John Rhys Plumlee embraces shot to return punts, focuses on duties as No. 4 QB
While a rumor about Justin Fields returning kickoffs dominated the Pittsburgh Steelers social-media news cycle for a time this spring, when training camp opened, it wasn’t Fields back for kickoffs but a different quarterback fielding a different sort of kick. Rookie John Rhys Plumlee has been a regular in the...
QB Russell Wilson has busiest practice day of Steelers camp yetVideo
Russell Wilson still isn’t taking a full workload of practice reps. But he’s inching closer to it. Tuesday’s Pittsburgh Steelers training-camp practice was Wilson’s busiest yet in regards to his participation. Wilson took part in the fully-padded and tackling-permitted practice and for the first time threw passes during 11-on-11 drills....
Catching 300 balls after practice daily exemplifies what Van Jefferson can bring as Steelers’ WR2
The son of a longtime former NFL player at his position, Van Jefferson remembers plenty of what his father, Shawn, taught him about work ethic. “He always had me doing something,” the younger Jefferson said after a recent Pittsburgh Steelers training camp practice. “Whether that’s just cutting the grass or...
Steelers inside the ropes: Najee Harris, Patrick Queen get chippy in ‘Backs on backers’
For the second time in a four-day span, the Pittsburgh Steelers staged the drill that, arguably, results in the most contact, physicality, trash-talking and testosterone. And the Friday Night Lights edition of “backs on backers” featured some chippiness between some of the team’s highest-profile players. While the one-on-one mock-pass rush/pass...
On 1-year anniversary of torn ACL, Steelers’ Cory Trice ramps up reps, gets intriguing new dutyVideo
As measured by the rhythm of a football season, Tuesday was a milestone for Cory Trice in that it was during the first padded practice of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2023 training camp that Trice suffered a torn ACL. “We’re (past that) now,” Trice said after emerging from the first padded...
New Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith on tight ends, fullbacks, pistol formationVideo
New Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith arrived with a reputation for leaning on tight ends. Over the first week-plus of training camp, that certainly has appeared to play out. Though nothing is “official” statistically or tracked reliably by media, rest assured that watching a practice at Saint Vincent would...
Annual ‘Friday Night Lights’ practice comes to Latrobe
Aside from his family, there is not much Mike Tomlin enjoys more than training camp. And there, perhaps, is no greater highlight of training camp than the annual “Friday Night Lights” Pittsburgh Steelers practice. For the 16th time under Tomlin, the Steelers will spend their traditional second Friday of camp...
Steelers camp report: Back to non-padded practice, Russell Wilson status quo
After two days of physicality associated with fully padded players, Thursday’s Pittsburgh Steelers practice reverted back to “shells.” But coach Mike Tomlin tried his best to ensure that didn’t mean a drop in intensity. “Attire cannot dictate attitude or approach,” Tomlin said after the Thursday session at Saint Vincent. “We’ve...
Steelers inside the ropes: 2-minute drill ‘situational football’ a highlight to end practice
One of the highest-profile and most interesting to watch of any drill at training camp is the 2-minute simulation the Pittsburgh Steelers will end practices with on occasion. Thursday was its first appearance during this camp. In mock scenarios in which the offense took over at its own 47-yard line...
Steelers bring back veteran OLB Markus Golden
Veteran outside linebacker Markus Golden signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday, returning to the team with which he spent his ninth NFL season in 2023. Golden, 33, served as the top backup to the T.J. Watt-Alex Highsmith edge rusher duo last season. The Steelers entered this camp with second-year...
2nd-year Steelers OL Spencer Anderson takes on double duty as guard on 1st, 2nd team offenses
Spencer Anderson didn’t look any worse for the wear. But by one measure he certainly had more cause to combat exhaustion after Wednesday’s training-camp practice than any of the more than seven dozen Pittsburgh Steelers players who took part in it. “Did anyone take more reps than me today? No,”...
Steelers inside the ropes: With the pads on, running game again prominent
A second day of pads, another day in which the running game was featured prominently by the offense during Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. Under new coordinator Arthur Smith, the Steelers are trending bigger and more physical. That has played out in recent days during the “seven shots” 2-point simulation that...
‘I want Beanie’ — Steelers coaches handpick 1-on-1 matchup Bishop vs. George Pickens
After the first full-team drill of Wednesday’s Pittsburgh Steelers training-camp practice, the defensive backs and wide receivers groups gathered opposite each other near the goal line on the left side as viewed from the bleachers at Chuck Noll Field. Quarterbacks stood in line between the hashes at about the 10-yard...
George Pickens makes another 1-handed catch during Steelers training camp practiceVideo
George Pickens offered another highlight for those attending Tuesday’s training-camp practice at Saint Vincent. The Steelers’ third-year receiver, Pickens was targeted by quarterback Justin Fields on the only throw among seven snaps of the “seven shots” 2-point conversion simulation that typically begins the team drills portion of each practice day....
Steelers inside the ropes: ‘Backs on backers’ doesn’t disappointVideo
Coach Mike Tomlin was beaming as he always does during this particular day that typically falls on the first practice day of the second week of Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. “Let’s go!” he boomed, to no one in particular but loud enough for all to hear. It was time for...
5 observations as Steelers training camp ramps up intensity with pads coming on
It’s been a relatively drama-free start to the 2024 Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. No holdouts or “hold-ins”. No major skirmishes. No off-field controversy. No significant injuries. (During practice, anyway). None other than the new starting quarterback, of course, has missed the entirety of camp because of a calf strain suffered...
Tyler Matakevich happy to be back with Steelers, knows his role on special teams, new kickoff rule
In some ways to Tyler Matakevich, it’s been feeling as if he never left. In others, it’s as if Matakevich’s return to the Pittsburgh Steelers makes it feel as if he’s joined an entirely new team. “Obviously, there’s been a lot of changes,” the inside linebacker said on the fourth...
Steelers inside the ropes: 1st-rounder Troy Fautanu gets 1st chance at some reps with 1st teamers
It was just a taste, and it might perhaps have been done only out of necessity following a minor injury. But the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first-round pick got his first taste of first-team reps. Troy Fautanu ran at right tackle with the offensive starters at various points during Sunday’s training-camp practice...
‘I am serious about it’ – Nate Herbig applies himself to being Steelers starting center
Spend any time in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room, and you quickly will find out one of the most gregarious players apt to frequently joke with teammates is veteran offensive lineman Nate Herbig. But when it comes to the new and higher-profile duties he has been handling this summer, Herbig...
Steelers inside the ropes: Justin Fields, 1st-team offense struggles with consistency
For a third consecutive day to open Pittsburgh Steelers training camp, Justin Fields was leading the first-team offense. Saturday, the fourth-year NFL quarterback continued to show inconsistencies. With Fields taking the snaps during the “seven shots” 2-point conversion style drills that traditionally begin the team portion of practices, the offense...
