Steelers/NFL category, Page 344
Mark Madden: Bet on Ben Roethlisberger in Steelers’ matchup with Ravens
It took time for meaningful evidence to be presented. But the Pittsburgh Steelers are for real. They can prove it Sunday by winning at Baltimore to take firm control of the AFC North, take a leap toward 10-0 and make surviving members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins sweat. (The Steelers...
Diontae Johnson wants to put ‘frustrating’ injuries behind him as Steelers prep for Ravens
The NFL season isn’t even half over for the Pittsburgh Steelers, yet wide receiver Diontae Johnson soon will need a second hand to count the number of injuries he has suffered this year. It started in training camp with a lower leg injury. A concussion in Week 3 knocked him...
First Call: Baltimore media jabs fallen Ben Roethlisberger, Big Ben on Antonio Brown, Ravens injury news
A Baltimore television station is ramping up the trash talk for Sunday’s Steelers-Ravens game. And Ben Roethlisberger is in the crosshairs. Big Ben also talks about that big signing in Tampa Bay. We’ve got Baltimore injury news, too. And the latest on a familiar face potentially quarterbacking the Dallas Cowboys....
View from Baltimore: Steelers ‘playing better,’ Ravens still really good, but not like last year
Even at 6-0, it still may not be easy for fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers to envision a win for their team Sunday in Baltimore. But Mike Tomlin’s club is certainly better poised to beat the Ravens than it was last season. For one, Ben Roethlisberger is healthy at quarterback....
Former Steelers, Colts wide receiver Jimmy Orr dies at 85
BALTIMORE — Throughout the 1960s, former Baltimore Colts wide receiver Jimmy Orr owned a patch of land fondly called Orrsville. Located in the right corner of the end zone at the closed end of Memorial Stadium, it’s where the sure-handed fan favorite caught most of his 66 touchdown receptions during...
Ravens CB Jimmy Smith misses practice, status in question for game vs. Steelers
One of the notable matchups of Sunday’s AFC North showdown between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens is one of the league’s deepest wide receivers corps against one of its best cornerbacks groups. But could that group of Baltimore cornerbacks be without arguably its best member? Veteran Jimmy Smith did...
Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger has fared well vs. blitz, but Ravens biggest challenge yet
For one game, at least, Ben Roethlisberger gets to see what his positional counterparts have faced all season. A team with a strong pass rush that likes to blitz. Analytics outlets throughout the season have remarked how much the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens both like to blitz. The Steelers...
Mike Hilton returns to Steelers practice, Ulysees Gilbert sits out
Two of the players the Pittsburgh Steelers are looking at to help replace the production of Devin Bush missed at least part of Thursday’s practice. Nickel cornerback Mike Hilton practiced Thursday for the first time in almost two weeks, but it was in a limited capacity. Reserve inside linebacker Ulysees...
No points, few 1st downs: Steelers defense has dominated opening drives during 6-0 start
When Ben Roethlisberger said the Pittsburgh Steelers would take the ball last Sunday after correctly calling tails for the coin toss, it put the defense in unfamiliar territory. It was the first time the Steelers won the toss this year and didn’t elect to put the defense on the field...
First Call: Tom Brady discusses Antonio Brown signing. Crazy Steelers-Ravens stats. Super Bowl seating.
Thursday’s “First Call” features some unreal stats about the Steelers-Ravens rivalry. Tom Brady makes his first comments about being reunited in Tampa with former Steelers receiver Antonio Brown. A former Steeler has been traded to a division rival. And Super Bowl seating is being debated. Quoth the Raven Exactly how...
Guess who is posing as Steelers receiver Chase Claypool in Ravens’ practice
If the first five years of Chase Claypool’s career are as good as the first five years of Dez Bryant’s career, Steelers fans will wind up being quite happy. Well, on the field anyway. That would mean 381 catches, 5,424 yards, and 58 touchdowns. Now, the Baltimore Ravens are simply...
U mad, bro? Readers skeptical of too much Steelers praise. Angry with Pirates, Pitt, too.
Some Steelers fans want us to pump the brakes on all this happy talk after a 6-0 start. Other readers are mad at the Pitt football team. For various reasons. And still others made the mistake of watching the World Series. Which plunged them further into depression about being Pirates...
Jordan Berry pleased to be back punting for the Steelers
No hard feelings. When you spent five years with an organization, the ties aren’t severed in a mere six weeks. “It’s a great team, and I have a lot of friends here,” Jordan Berry said of the Pittsburgh Steelers. “Of of all the opportunities I could have gotten, this is...
Steelers’ have NFL’s best ball-control offense heading into AFC North test against Ravens
For obvious reasons, the Pittsburgh Steelers wouldn’t mind getting off to the same kind of start Sunday in Baltimore that they did in Week 7 at Tennessee. Not just jumping to a 14-0 lead after two possessions or building a 24-7 advantage at halftime. But also methodically moving the ball...
Mike Hilton out again, Alejandro Villanueva added to Steelers injury report
Three days after missing a game because of a shoulder injury, Pittsburgh Steelers slot cornerback Mike Hilton sat out practice Wednesday. Left tackle Alejandro Villanueva and tight end Eric Ebron were unexpected additions to the injury report for the first practice in advance of Sunday’s AFC North showdown at the...
Despite mysterious Instagram post, Cam Sutton remains with Steelers
After sending Steeler Nation into a frenzy with a cryptic Instagram post Tuesday night, Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Cam Sutton was present and accounted for Wednesday, quashing speculation that he was on the verge of being traded. Sutton attended practice, which was moved indoors at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex because...
Steelers, Pitt broadcaster Bill Hillgrove to serve probation to resolve Murrysville DUI case
Pittsburgh Steelers and University of Pittsburgh football and basketball radio broadcaster William T. “Bill” Hillgrove will serve two years on probation after he was arrested in June for a drunken driving incident in Murrysville. Police said Hillgrove, 79, of Murrysville, was intoxicated when he crashed into the front windows at...
Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers prep for ‘football in its purest form’ vs. RavensVideo
A decade ago against the Baltimore Ravens, Ben Roethlisberger suffered a broken nose. Another time, one of their linebackers bragged about “feeling the air rushing out of his body” while delivering a brutal sack. Yet, through it all, Roethlisberger longs for the chance to subject himself to the potential abuse....
Mark Madden: It’ll take more than ‘next man up’ to stop Ravens’ Lamar Jackson
One of Mike Tomlin’s longest-standing empty platitudes is “next man up.” If somebody gets injured, whoever sits below him on the depth chart goes in. Inside linebacker Devin Bush got hurt against Cleveland a couple weeks ago, so Robert Spillane went in. He did fine in his first NFL start...
First Call: Steelers fan confidence grows; Ravens, Super Bowl gambling lines shrink
For Wednesday’s “First Call” we look at how much confidence is rising within the Steelers fanbase. We also see a correlation in the gambling world. And can things really get worse for the Dallas Cowboys? Yes. Yes, they can. Direct correlation As confidence grows in the 2020 Steelers, the gambling...
Antonio Brown officially signs with Tampa Bay … in forcefully understated fashion
It’s official. A.B. is in T.B. with TB 12. Antonio Brown is a Tampa Bay Buccaneer. The former Steelers All-Pro is now on his third team since forcing his way out of Pittsburgh at the end of the 2018 season. It’s been known that the Bucs were planning on signing...
Tim Benz: Ravens defense is biggest challenge yet for Steelers offense
As the Steelers prepare to visit Baltimore Sunday, the Ravens defense of 2020 may not conjure the images of 10 to 15 years ago. It’s still very good, though. And it is the best one this Steelers offense will have faced so far in this season. Denver’s isn’t bad. Philadelphia’s...
Steelers cook up a nice afternoon for breast cancer survivors at UPMC Magee in Oakland
Some people call football players warriors for what they endure on a field playing a brutal sport. “The real warriors are you,” said Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Stephon Tuitt via a video screen Tuesday to current and former patients of the Magee-Womens Breast Cancer Program of UPMC Hillman Cancer Center....
Before lightweights return to schedule, Steelers must get past Ravens
Once questioned about the validity of their early-season success, the Pittsburgh Steelers no longer are hearing about the ease of their schedule. Not after victories against the one-loss Cleveland Browns and undefeated Tennessee Titans in successive weeks. Of course, the stakes are magnified in Week 8, when the Steelers go...
Steelers’ Mike Tomlin looking for right ‘answer’ to stopping Ravens QB Lamar Jackson
Sure, the Pittsburgh Steelers confused and harassed Lamar Jackson into his worst individual performance of an MVP season in 2019. Just don’t ask coach Mike Tomlin about the secret to keeping the Baltimore Ravens quarterback in check. “I wish I had an answer to that,” Tomlin said Tuesday. “I think...
