Joe Rutter stories, Page 118

Mel Blount, Franco Harris to chair Steelers’ summer charity events

The Pittsburgh Steelers are bringing out two of their Hall of Fame players for their annual summer fundraisers. Mel Blount and Franco Harris will serve as honorary chairs of the Steelers Charity Walk and Steelers 5K race, respectively. The charity walk, which will be held July 27 at Saint Vincent...
By saying little, Maurkice Pouncey shows support for Ben Roethlisberger

In April, a few days before the first phase of offseason workouts, Pittsburgh Steelers offensive linemen Ramon Foster and Maurkice Pouncey issued a joint social-media post calling for an end to all bashing by current and former players. Although his name was never mentioned in the post, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger...
AAF alum Kameron Kelly gets 1st-team work in Steelers secondary

Already during this calendar year, Kameron Kelly had lined up at wide receiver, cornerback and strong safety. And that was before he joined the Pittsburgh Steelers in April. On Tuesday, the 22-year-old defensive back took repetitions at free safety. And he did it with the first-team defense. Kelly played alongside...
Steelers’ Chris Boswell sticks to basics as he tries to regain accuracy

After a season in which nothing seemed to go right for Chris Boswell, he headed home and decided an overhaul to his kicking approach would be wrong. So he didn’t change a thing. “I’m going to stick to what I did going into my fourth year,” said Boswell, who is...
Steelers face 20-1 odds of having NFL’s best record in 2019

Coming off a 9-6-1 season, the Pittsburgh Steelers will be trying to return to the AFC playoffs for the fifth time in six years. One gambling site thinks the Steelers have a better chance of achieving the NFL’s best record in 2019 than they do the worst. According to BetOnline.ag,...
James Washington more at ease playing with Roethlisberger, Steelers

James Washington never felt entirely comfortable in the Pittsburgh Steelers offense — or with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger — in his rookie season. A late-season pep talk by Roethlisberger calmed the young Steelers wide receiver’s nerves. Still, it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that Washington began to feel at ease...
David DeCastro misses 1st week of Steelers OTAs due to birth of child

The Pittsburgh Steelers had near-perfect attendance for the first week of organized team activities. Almost every player was on hand to either participate in the first three days of voluntary workouts or receive treatment at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. One notable exception was All-Pro guard David DeCastro, who had a...
Steelers’ Terrell Edmunds owns up to Twitter gaffe, ready to improveVideo

Terrell Edmunds may be a second-year player on the Pittsburgh Steelers roster, but on social media he still is prone to making a rookie mistake. Edmunds admittedly erred earlier this week when he liked a tweet from Antonio Brown, whose “Two face” post was viewed as a jab at quarterback...
Ryan Shazier, James Conner nominated for George Halas Award

Two Pittsburgh Steelers players are nominees for this year’s George Halas Award. Running back James Conner and linebacker Ryan Shazier are among the five finalists for the award, which is given to the NFL player, coach or staff member who overcomes the most adversity to succeed. The award is presented...
Make no mistake, Cleveland awarded NFL Draft in 2021

Fans who want to see the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first-round draft pick being selected in two seasons will need to make a short drive up the turnpike. At the NFL spring meeting in Key Biscayne, Fla., commissioner Roger Goodell announced that Cleveland has landed the 2021 NFL Draft. The timing coincides...
JuJu Smith-Schuster ready to lead young group of Steelers receivers

When JuJu Smith-Schuster joined the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2017, he was the youngest player in the NFL and trailed Antonio Brown and Martavis Bryant on the depth chart. When Smith-Schuster stepped onto the fields at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex this week for the start of organized team activities, he still...
Steelers WR JuJu Smith-Schuster plans to be more approachable, talkative this season

JuJu Smith-Schuster initially declined to speak with the media Wednesday, telling reporters he would be available the next day. About 10 minutes after he ducked into the locker room, the Pittsburgh Steelers third-year receiver returned to the practice field at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex with a team spokesman in tow....
Ty Law memorabilia to be displayed at Pro Football Hall of Fame

Ty Law will have more than just a bust to symbolize his enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Aliquippa graduate will have more than 40 pieces of memorabilia on display this summer as part of the Class of 2019 Locker Exhibit. Other class members, including Champ Bailey,...
Ben Roethlisberger excited to work with young group of Steelers receivers

No family vacations are planned for the rest of Ben Roethlisberger’s spring. As he enters his 16th NFL season, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback expects to be a regular participant at organized team activities, a departure from last year when he showed up to UMPC Rooney Sports Complex for the first...
Late-season rift with Antonio Brown was ‘confusing’ to Ben Roethlisberger

For a long time after the Pittsburgh Steelers’ season ended, Ben Roethlisberger thought he would get a chance to make up with wide receiver Antonio Brown. That ended when the Steelers acquiesced to Brown’s trade request and sent him to the Oakland Raiders on March 10. “Once he was gone,...
Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger hopes to ‘reconnect’ with Antonio Brown

It took six months for Ben Roethlisberger to admit he went too far in criticizing Antonio Brown. It took only a few hours for Brown to respond. And apparently he wasn’t in a forgiving mood. Roethlisberger conducted an interview with KDKA-TV that aired Monday night. After excerpts were released on...

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