Joe Rutter stories, Page 70

In one regards, the NFL didn’t do the Pittsburgh Steelers any favors by rescheduling their postponed game against the Tennessee Titans for Week 7. The Steelers’ reward for controlling the NFL’s top rushing team is a matchup against the league’s top individual runner, the Titans’ Derrick Henry. It could cause...

Mike Tomlin might be rethinking his decision to swap out punters before the start of the regular season. With 38-year-old Dustin Colquitt possessing an NFL-worst 37.1 yards net punting average, the Steelers brought in former punter Jordan Berry for a tryout Monday, according to several reports. Tomlin acknowledged Tuesday at...

Mike Tomlin is prepared to go with former undrafted free agent Robert Spillane at inside linebacker for the immediate future as the Pittsburgh Steelers plan to play the rest of the season without starter Devin Bush. Tomlin said Tuesday at his weekly news conference Bush will undergo surgery Wednesday to...

Coach Mike Tomlin likes to say the strength of the pack is in the pack, and that continues to hold true for the Pittsburgh Steelers pass catchers. In crafting a 5-0 record, the Steelers have had five wide receivers or tight ends make significant contributions to each victory. The latest...

Robert Spillane knows he can’t replicate Devin Bush on the football field. He doesn’t have 4.43 speed or a Big Ten pedigree. He doesn’t share the sideline-to-sideline playmaking ability that made Bush the most athletic Steelers inside linebacker since Ryan Shazier. “Devin is a great player,” Spillane said Monday. “He...

Five things we learned about Steelers 38, Browns 7: 1. Challenge accepted The Browns didn’t have Nick Chubb, who was on injured reserve, but they still brought Kareem Hunt and a running game that rated as the best in the NFL to Heinz Field. It was the biggest test for...

If anyone expected Myles Garrett to try to make amends with the Pittsburgh Steelers and coach Mike Tomlin on Sunday afternoon, they were disappointed. Garrett did speak with Tomlin prior to the start of the Steelers’ 38-7 victory against the Cleveland Browns at Heinz Field, but the conversation was not...

The Cleveland Browns thought this game would be different. That they were equipped to end the Pittsburgh Steelers’ domination at Heinz Field. That they no longer were going to be pushed around in this AFC North rivalry. Instead, their trip back up the Pennsylvania Turnpike ended up being another lonely...

Even if they did not end up producing much, the Cleveland Browns had all of their offensive stars active for Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field. Quarterback Baker Mayfield (ribs) and wide receivers Odell Beckham Jr. (illness) and Jarvis Landry (hip/ribs) each suited up after being listed...

Cameron Heyward had an interesting way this week of describing the Pittsburgh Steelers’ AFC North showdown Sunday with the Cleveland Browns. “I know it’s not a late-night game,” Heyward said, “but it’s a prime-time game.” By definition, it actually isn’t. The NFL schedule makers decided against flexing this matchup between...

By sheer size, Chase Claypool is difficult to miss. At 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, the rookie second-round draft pick from Notre Dame is the tallest wide receiver on the Pittsburgh Steelers roster. His long stride, 80-inch wingspan and 4.42 speed also make him impossible to ignore on the football field....

When it comes to stopping the run, few teams have done it better this season than the Pittsburgh Steelers. They held Saquon Barkley to six yards on 15 carries. They gave up 23 yards to David Johnson and, aside from a 74-yard burst courtesy of a missed tackle, limited Miles...

The ability to make adjustments on third down is one factor in Ben Roethlisberger getting off to the best start of his 17-year career with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Roethlisberger completed all 13 of his third-down attempts, throwing for 158 yards and two scores in such situations, in the Steelers’ 38-29...

For the first time in 11 months, Myles Garrett and the Pittsburgh Steelers will share the same patch of grass on a football field. Mike Tomlin is more concerned about what Garrett does before the whistle is blown rather than after it. And he’s certain his Steelers players feel the...

Five things we learned from Steelers 38, Eagles 29: 1. Tough tests on horizon If the Steelers played NCAA basketball, based on the first month of scheduling, critics would have pegged the team’s coach as Jamie Dixon and not Mike Tomlin. Based on the records of their first four opponents,...

With an unexpected bye dropped into the fourth week of the NFL season, the Pittsburgh Steelers could be excused for wondering whether their offense would be rustier than a 20-year-old SUV on Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles. Those concerns were unfounded. At least for quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. And certainly for...

With two core special teams players ruled out for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles, running back Trey Edmunds will be active after being elevated from the practice squad one day earlier. Edmunds will help replace the loss of special teams players Derek Watt and Marcus Allen....

His Philadelphia Eagles teammates were looking for inside information from Javon Hargrave on how to sack Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Who better to go to for advice? After all, during his four seasons with the Steelers, Hargrave regularly lined up across from Roethlisberger in practice. Hargrave didn’t mean to...

Three days before they play the Philadelphia Eagles, the Pittsburgh Steelers still don’t know which wide receivers they will be tasked with defending on Sunday at Heinz Field. Veterans DeSean Jackson and Alshon Jeffrey – the two projected starters entering the season — remain question marks heading into the game,...

T.J. Watt, an early contender for NFL Defensive Player of the Year, did not practice for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday because of a knee injury. It is the first time this season that Watt has landed on the team’s injury report. Watt leads the Steelers with 3.5 sacks —...

Although fans will be permitted inside Heinz Field on Sunday to attend the Pittsburgh Steelers’ game against the Philadelphia Eagles, the atmosphere outside will look different than previous seasons. The Steelers announced Thursday that no tailgating — a pregame custom for decades — will be permitted in the stadium parking...

Still smarting over the Pittsburgh Steelers having an unexpected bye thrust on them in the fourth week of the season, Ben Roethlisberger took a few shots Wednesday at the NFL’s decision to postpone their game against the Tennessee Titans until later in the season. “Of course, we got the short...

Before Mike Tomlin put the Pittsburgh Steelers through a practice Monday morning, he made sure the NFL and its players association were on board with his decision. The collective bargaining agreement states teams on a bye week must give players four days off. The Steelers had just three after their...

A truism for the Pittsburgh Steelers the past two seasons was that if an offensive lineman was called for holding, chances are the guilty party was left tackle Alejandro Villanueva. Villanueva was called for holding eight times over the 2018-19 seasons, which easily was the most of any lineman on...