Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at
12:29 pm
Unfortunately we have more injury news to pass along to you following the conclusion of the Pittsburgh Steelers second OTA practice of the 2013 season that took place on Wednesday. Mark Kaboly of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is now reporting via Twitter that rookie cornerback Terry Hawthorne is on crutches with apparent right knee discomfort.
Hawthorne, who was drafted by the Steelers in the fifth-round of the 2013 NFL Draft last month out of Illinois, had problems staying healthy while in college and as a result he missed six games over the course of four seasons.
Hopefully the knee injury
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at
11:44 am
The Pittsburgh Steelers second practice of the first OTA session of the 2013 season has ended and rookie linebacker Jarvis Jones apparently was limited once again with hamstring injury, according to Mark Kaboly of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Twitter.
Kaboly reports that Jones didn't fully participate in the Wednesday session and that the Georgia product said following practice that he originally tweaked his hamstring during his Pro Day workout back in March while running his forty-yard dash and that he aggravated it again at rookie camp a few weeks ago.
At least we know for sure that
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at
10:15 am
The Pittsburgh Steelers second practice of the first OTA session of the 2013 season is now underway and Mark Kaboly of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported during his interview on Trib Live Radio that he observed linebacker Chris Carter leaving the building early.
It's way to early to speculate what might be going on with Carter, but we sure hope that it isn't injury related. Carter, the Steelers fifth-round pick in 2011, ended the 2012 season on injured reserve with an abdominal injury and also missed time during his rookie season with a hamstring injury.
I am sure that Kaboly will track
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at
7:01 am
The Pittsburgh Steelers wasted no time this off-season in re-signing wide receiver Plaxico Burress, who inked a one-year deal early on in free agency. Burress was a guest this past Friday on SiriusXM NFL Radio and he talked about how glad he is to get to another chance to play in Pittsburgh in 2013.
During the interview, Burrress was asked if he thinks that he still has it in himself to deliver at the NFL level.
"This time around, I have a whole off-season to get ready," said Burress. "I have mini camps, I have training camp and I'm given the same opportunity as everybody else to go into the
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at
1:09 am
On Monday, I posted a few things that I was hoping we would learn from the Pittsburgh Steelers first OTA session of the 2013 season that got underway on Tuesday and one of those items concerned rookie undrafted free agent wide receiver Reggie Dunn, and more specifically, his ability to return punts.
It just so happens that Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette posted about Dunn in his Tuesday online chat and apparently the Utah kickoff return extraordinaire has yet to master the skill of catching punts.
"I'm told Dunn, while a great kick returner, has not mastered the job of catching the
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at
8:25 pm
The Pittsburgh Steelers first OTA session of the 2013 season got underway on Tuesday, and it appears that first-round draft pick, linebacker Jarvis Jones, might have aggravated a hamstring injury that suffered during his March Pro Day, according to a Tuesday evening report by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was asked about Jones following Tuesday's practice and of course he really didn't elaborate any in his response.
"He's capable of practicing, which he did," said Tomlin. "Had a good day."
David Todd of ESPN 970 Radio was at the Steelers practice on Tuesday
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at
7:09 pm
While he might not have shown up in the same shape that he was when he came out of USC many moons ago, Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu still looked to be in pretty good shape for the first OTA session of the 2013 season that got underway on Tuesday. However, during his talk with the media following practice, Polamalu revealed that the calf injury that forced him to miss nine games last season has bothered him for the last four years.
Polamalu was first asked by the Pittsburgh media if there is anything that he can do to ward off the calf injury moving forward.
"Yeah, I've done quite
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at
4:26 pm
According to Josina Anderson of ESPN on Twitter, former Pittsburgh Steelers tackle Max Starks has a agreed to terms with the San Diego Chargers on Tuesday.
https://twitter.com/JosinaAnderson/status/336954576374743040
Starks, who was originally drafted by the Steelers in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft, played every snap at left tackle last season after tearing up his knee in the 2011 AFC Wild Card Game against the Denver Broncos.
At the end of the 2012 season, Starks said that he was open to returning to Pittsburgh in 2013, but only if given an opportunity to start. He has maintained
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at
3:12 pm
Last year at about this time, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was referring to the new offense being installed by then-new offensive coordinator Todd Haley as the "Rosetta Stone Offense." Following the first OTA practice of the 2013 season on Tuesday, Roethlisberger was asked if he feels different about the offense now that he is entering his second year in it.
"Yeah, a little bit. There’s a little more comfort, said Roethlisberger. "There has been some changes this offseason in some of the offensive philosophies, playbook and some things that I think are good.
"It’s
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at
11:55 am
The Pittsburgh Steelers first OTA session of the 2013 season got underway on Tuesday and we are finally starting to see some reports come in via Twitter from the media.
Mark Kaboly of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Marcus Gilbert opened up as the starting left tackle with Mike Adams manning the right tackle spot. In addition, Kelvin Beachum worked as the second team center on Tuesday.
Tight end Heath Miller (knee) will not practice all off-season, but Kaboly reports that he was walking around without a limp and that he looked good.
The tackle spots are one of several things
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at
9:18 am
The Pittsburgh Steelers announced on Tuesday that they have hired former cornerback Chidi Iwuoma to the personnel department as a BLESTO scout and that Mike Butler will now become a college scout.
Iwuoma was originally signed by the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent in 2001 out of California, but played for the Steelers from 2002-2006. While he never started a game for the Steelers on the defensive side of the football, he was a special teams ace and he served as the special teams co-captain in both 2004 and 2005.
During his time in Pittsburgh, Iwuoma registered 62 special teams tackles,
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at
8:47 am
By Jeremy Hritz
James Harrison is gone and is now in the land of the Bungles, apparently motivated by the Pittsburgh Steelers cutting ties with him. In week two of the approaching NFL season, Harrison will get his first opportunity to make his former team still wish they had his services, while Jason Worilds will be hoping to prove that the Steelers made the correct call.
Sure, the Steelers drafted Jarvis Jones in the first round this year with the expectation that he will eventually become a starter in Pittsburgh, but what happens in the event that Worilds explodes this season and lights it
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at
7:01 am
The first OTA session of the 2013 season for the Pittsburgh Steelers will get underway on Tuesday and I sure do hope that somebody gets rookie quarterback Landry Jones a Terrible Towel during the week, and more importantly, explains the history of it to him. Why? According to an interview that Jones did last week at the 17th Annual NFLPA Rookie Premiere, he doesn't know much about the famed Myron Cope creation.
"Terrible Towel? I don’t know really much about the Terrible Towel, yet, but I'm sure me and Whitney (Jones' wife) will get one, and I think she'll be in the stands swinging it with all
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 at
8:14 pm
On Sunday, I passed along the news that Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu would be in attendance for the first OTA session of the 2013 season that gets underway on Tuesday and now there is a report on Twitter from Mark Kaboly of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that states the 2010 Defensive Player of the Year is in the best shape that he has been in since his playing days at USC.
Polamalu missed nine games last season after suffering a calf injury early on in the season and as a result the seven-time Pro Bowler registered just 34 total tackles and one interception.
This will make the
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 at
5:55 pm
Pittsburgh Steelers rookie wide receiver Justin Brown is about to enter the second phase of his transition into the NFL with the first OTA session getting underway Tuesday in Pittsburgh, but transition is something that the Oklahoma product is probably pretty used to by now.
Brown, who attended the Steelers rookie camp immediately following the draft, decided to transfer to Oklahoma from Penn State following the Jerry Sandusky scandal and he recently told Ralph Paulk of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that it took a lot to decide to leave the school that he envisioned playing for during all of
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 at
2:38 pm
Pittsburgh Steelers running back Isaac Redman was a guest Monday morning on 93.7 The Fan, and he talked about his off-season; the upcoming OTA session and several other team related topics in addition.
With the Steelers drafting Michigan State running back Le'Veon Bell in the second round last month in addition to adding free agent running back LaRod Stephens-Howling to the roster a few weeks ago, Redman was asked to give his thoughts on what those additions do to his mentality heading into the 2013 season.
"It just makes you work even harder," said Redman, who was originally signed by the
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 at
1:27 pm
The Pittsburgh Steelers announced on Monday that they have another one of their nine draft picks under contract as sixth-round linebacker Vince Williams has now signed his rookie contract.
Williams, who was the second of the two players selected by the Steelers in the sixth-round, is out of Florida State and was the 206th overall pick in the draft . He played in 50 college games and made 26 starts in his final two seasons, and recorded 140 tackles, 13.5 TFLs and three sacks.
Financial terms of the four year deal have yet to be announced, but thanks to the slotting system, Williams' contract
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 at
11:54 am
Season 3, Episode 104 of The Terrible Podcast is up and co-host David Todd and I begin the show by looking ahead to the first OTA session for the Pittsburgh Steelers that will get underway on Tuesday. We highlight a few things that we will be looking for specifically in the reports made by the media and hopefully David will be provide us with some details of what he observed over the course of the week on our Thursday episode.
With not much news to report on the Steelers specifically, David and I have a look around the top stories around the league currently and we give our comments on them.
In
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 at
10:01 am
Change is inevitable in the NFL as there is turnover on rosters each and every year. When the Pittsburgh Steelers first OTA of the 2013 off-season gets underway on Tuesday, they will be short 15 players from last season.
Of those 15 players, seven of them were perceived as starters with the offense losing four and the defense losing three. Those 7 players logged 6,666 total plays on either offense or defense of a possible 23,107, so that works out to be 29% of player contribution that the Steelers lost this off-season.
OFFENSE
POS
PLAYER
SNAPS
WR
Mike Wallace
852
TE
Leonard
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 at
7:40 am
The first OTA session of the 2013 off-season for the Pittsburgh Steelers will get underway on Tuesday, and while we aren't likely to learn a lot from it, there will be a few things I will be looking for specifically in the reports from the media.
Tackle Sides - Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was pretty much non-committal about who will play what tackle spot when he talked to the media during his pre draft press conference. With veteran Max Starks currently out of sight and out of mind for right now, we should find out this week whether or not it is Marcus Gilbert or Mike Adams that gets the first
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