PITTSBURGH 鈥� The Steelers hope to have found James Harrison蘑菇视频 heir apparent this time after drafting outside linebacker T.J. Watt in the first round last night.The Steelers tried to replace Harrison once before, in 2013, but Jarvis Jones didn鈥檛 work out and Harrison returned to the team, ...
Two days before the draft, the NFL finally got around to announcing the reinstatement of Martavis Bryant.The Steelers wide receiver had been suspended the past year for failing the league蘑菇视频 substance abuse policy. But after spending much of the year training and coaching kids in Nevada, ...
The Jabrill Peppers news yesterday knocked me for a bit of a loop.Peppers was someone whom I believed could give the Pittsburgh Steelers what the great Troy Polamalu gave them.But then, shouldn鈥檛 Peppers act like Polamalu?Hey, for all I know, Peppers鈥� failed NFL Combine drug test 鈥� his ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� As they have every season since 1978, the Steelers will play 16 regular-season games and, potentially, up to four postseason games in 2017.Yet to hear some tell it, the Steelers have just one opponent next season: The New England Patriots.Those would be the same Patriots who ...
The loss still stings.The need still rings.Here was Mike Tomlin finally admitting to that need last month at the NFL Owners Meetings:鈥淥ur inability to play man-to-man effectively and our inability to apply pressure on the quarterback without blitzing were issues in that game,鈥� Tomlin said ...
James Harrison covered up a big problem last season, and that problem could actually be a structural one for a team that believes it can continue using OLB/DE hybrids as edge rushers in their nickel defense.The nickel defense has become the base defense for the Steelers, who seemingly refuse to ...
