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Defensive linemen on Steelers’ radar

The image of John Mitchell knocking on the door of Karim KassamÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ office comes with a soundtrack that might go something like this:Kassam: Can I help you?Mitchell: Um, yeah, Coach Tomlin told me to come see you.Kassam: About?Mitchell: Well, I asked him why he took my boys off the board. He ...

Rutherford still old, still gray, still Pens’ GM

How do you like Jim Rutherford now?Remember this time last year when many were saying he was too old to be the Penguins’ General Manager? Remember last December when they were saying the same thing and second guessing his decision to bring Phil Kessel in from Toronto? HeÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ still 67 years ...

Hines Ward clones could entice Steelers at WR

In the age of sports analytics, you pay attention when a website called VPG Sports sends over a couple of charts comparing some of the top Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers over the years to the top wide receivers in this draft.If anyone knows wide receivers, itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ the Steelers, and VPG had ...

Steelers looking for mid-round tackles

Since striking gold in 2005 by drafting All-Pro tackles in the second and fourth rounds, Mike Munchak has pretty much looked for the same traits in offensive linemen, particularly at the tackle position.In fact, the only lineman drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers since Munchak became the ...

Striker brings an edge to his conversation

Eric Striker likes to talk, as playmaking linebackers are wont to do, and he talked at the NFL Combine about anything: the big game that year against Alabama, politics, his mom and her entrance into law school, the racial incident that year on his Oklahoma campus, and fun stuff like how his ...

Steelers could add RB in late rounds

The Year in Comparison for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ current needs at running back is 2004, when they had a pair of veterans in Jerome Bettis and Duce Staley, a serviceable No. 3 in Verron Haynes and an excellent blocking fullback in Dan Kreider, with depth behind Kreider on the practice squad ...