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Only a few camp concerns

In a few hours, the Steelers will not only begin conditioning drills, they’ll claim victory for the quietest off-season of at least the Mike Tomlin era, and perhaps longer.Grab the checklist:n No suspensions hanging over the team.n No holdouts, rookie or otherwise.n No divisive commentary in ...

Defense revamped with speed

Keith Butler had just finished talking about his linebackers for close to 20 minutes with an array of reporters last week and then began walking back to his office. Halfway down the hallway, Butler let out a satisfying end-of-the-workday breath and said, “You know, this is the fastest defense ...

“Hey, Wex!” Mike Tomlin shouted as he charged down the sideline toward me with that big smile of his.“Did you see what I did today?!”Yes, on this day Tomlin had moved rookie running back Dri Archer over to work with the wide receivers.I noticed it. I passed TomlinĢƵ test. I usually ...

From the notebook of a sportswriter whoĢƵ not embarrassed to make optimistic pronouncements on June 1 about the Steelers’ upcoming season:n Of course I need to see more than one week of spring practices, but I’m excited about the way they’ve addressed their problems.n Sean Spence had ...

Someone wrote right before the draft, on the day the great scout Bill Nunn died, that the Pittsburgh Steelers had suffered “a loss in the force.”But I wondered whether it would work the other way. I wondered whether the Steelers had gained in “the force,” and I wondered whether the 40th ...

The juicy draft news always seems to take its sweet ol’ time coming out, but it eventually comes out.And you may have heard this from your sources, too, that the Steelers would like to trade down and gain more picks in the deepest draft in Kevin ColbertĢƵ 30 years in the ...