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Steelers tab QB Dobbs in 4th round

PITTSBURGH — Don’t call Josh Dobbs an astronaut.The newest quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers is an aerospace engineer, and he’ll tell you all about the F-135 engine.“The most technologically advanced engine ever created,” he said with his voice rising in enthusiasm.But thereĢƵ ...

Steelers add JuJu to 3-ring circus

PITTSBURGH — Worried about Martavis Bryant much?Perhaps they should be.The Pittsburgh Steelers, still reeling from a shredding at the hands of Tom Brady and looking at a talented crop of defensive backs in the 2017 draft, instead chose wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster of Southern Cal with ...

Steelers grab OLB Watt in 1st round

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers hope to have found James HarrisonĢƵ 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’t work out and Harrison returned to the team, ...

Bryant reinstated by NFL

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 leagueĢƵ substance abuse policy. But after spending much of the year training and coaching kids in Nevada, ...

PITTSBURGH — 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 ...

Handicapping an unpredictable draft

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’t Peppers act like Polamalu?Hey, for all I know, Peppers’ failed NFL Combine drug test — his ...