Emmanuel Sanders fractured his foot in the Super Bowl and will need surgery according to a post on his Facebook page. Speaking of Sanders, offensive coordinator Bruce Arians thought the foot injury Sanders suffered that knocked him from the game played a factor. It caused the Steelers to shuffle personnel in their multiple-wideout sets. Gerry Dulac looks at how the Steelers coaching staff might turnover next year including Arians and linebacker coach Keith Butler. The Steelers are 10/1 odds to win it all next year in 2012 Super Bowl XLVI. Right behind the Packers at 7/1 and Patriots at Read more [...]

It is looking more and more like Doug Legursky will be starting at center for Super Bowl XLV against the Green Bay Packers in place of Maurkice Pouncey. We hope we are wrong and Pouncey is healed by then, but just in case, we are releasing our Super Bowl movie poster of "The Big Legursky". We hope you like it on Facebook and share it on Twitter. Read more [...]

I am not 100% sure that James Harrison wrote this or not or if it was written by an employee of his or a volunteer of his foundation. It was on his Facebook page and is a great read nonetheless. You need to be the judge of it's authenticity or validity. Here is what is to believed to be his official Fan Page on Facebook. I’m going to rant one good time and get it over with. So the NFL says they are extremely worried about player safety, right? But the League wants to add two more games and make it an 18 game season even though they are fully aware of the physical toll playing the game takes Read more [...]

If you believe the news today from Bob Smizik in the Post Gazette, ESPN 1250 Sports radio in Pittsburgh will continue with a sports format until the end of the year and then switch to Radio Disney. This means they will only carry ESPN national programming almost exclusively until Dec. 31. On Jan. 1, the station will switch to Radio Disney. This means the weekday shows of Stan and Guy, The Drive, with Scott Paulsen, Mike Logan and Chris Mack and Stillers 360, with Ken Laird could be ripped from the air as soon as next week. I urge everyone to take to Twitter and use the hashtag #SaveESPN1250 Read more [...]

A pleasant surprise emerged on Twitter Friday as Steelers All-Everything safety Troy Polamalu tweeted for the first time. In his inaugural Tweet, Polamalu said, "Neither sound or light can escape todays social network I dont know why I thought I could but today I surrender to the tweeting revolution." In 9 short hours of his first Tweet, Polamalu had over 7500 followers and climbing on the social media giant. If you are expecting Tweets from the locker room, late night U-Stream videos or off color quotes about team turmoil, you are not going to find it coming from Polamalu. He is a very humble, Read more [...]

Joe Linta, the agent for Steelers offensive tackle Willie Colon, was interviewed by The FAN’s John Seibel on Wednesday to discuss how the surgery on Colon went and his furture going forward as he will remain a restricted free agent going into 2011. The injury has devastated Colon who was looking at a chance at his one huge pay day, should he have had a good season this year. You have to feel bad for poor Willie as he was hurt by the NFL not having a CBA in place this year as we mentioned a few days ago. Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio and Joe Brocato discuss the season ending injury to right Read more [...]

Doug Farrar of Yahoo Sports and Football Outsiders has contributed an article as part of Yahoo's Under Surveillance series prior to NFL training camps that looks at the major strengths and weaknesses of all 32 NFL teams. Farrar points out the Steelers biggest weakness being the inability to run the ball consistently and offers up a solution of more bunch receiver formations in 2010 and how the Steelers ran effectively out of that formation in 2009. Steelers.com has posted part 1 of their "Ask The Steelers" segment with wide receiver Antwaan Randle El. El talks about leaving the Steelers after Read more [...]

The kids attending Coach Mike Tomlin's youth football camp at Mars Area High School got a surprise visit from Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Wednesday. While it was most definitely a great PR move by Big Ben, he made it clear that it's his intention to be back next year as well. Little things like this will add up over time and restore his character to the fans and the team. [flv:http://cbstv.vo.llnwd.net/e2/0013/flash/20100623181016_33838_000606p0000835p6.flv 480 360] Hines Ward chatted with NFL Total Access host Rich Eisen on Wednesday about his experience at NFL Broadcast Boot Read more [...]

Steelers safety Troy Polamalu worked with kids attending the Colonial All-Pro Football Camp at William & Mary on Tuesday and said he loves the Steelers being the underdog again. He also goes on to say that quarterback Ben Roethlisberger troubles haven't been a distraction and the Steelers need to get back to playing Steeler football in 2010. Melinda Waldrop has a blog post on him here in the Daily Press and the photo gallery is here. The Steelers defense had a ton of miscommunication last season and Kevin Gorman writes that it has been a focus this offseason on listening and communicating Read more [...]

Ok you are a Steelers fan with a computer. Duh! You have heard of Twitter. Check. Heard of Facebook. Check. Twitter is where it is at. I and other reputable sports media outlets all use Twitter. It is great for breaking news as well as communicating with others. Often times 140 characters are only needed to get the word or thought out about something. Not a blog post on my site. What is Twitter? Need some help? First it is free. Never cost you a dime. Second here is a great free tutorial to get you up to speed on Twitter Third you can follow me on Twitter here. If you are dead set at not using Read more [...]

As you may have noticed, we have completed our re-design here at Steelers Depot. we have had good feedback thus far and are always open to suggesations on making the site better. Make sure to become a fan on Facebook as well. The Steelers are reportedly one of eight teams that met with FSU safety Myron Rolle at the Senior Bowl. John Harris recently did an article on him as well. ESPN has done an Inside A Moment In Time of the Super Bowl interception return for a touchdown by linebacker James Harrison. They interviewed several involved with this key play and it makes for a great interactive Read more [...]

Steelers cornerback Ike Taylor and linebacker James Farrior are working with renowned trainer Tom Shaw and three Florida State draft prospects down in Florida. I hope Shaw has a fountain of youth pool. The weekly Ed Bouchette's Steelers chat transcript is up on PPG. Bouchette says he voted for Heath Miller, Jeff Reed and LaMarr Woodley for the Pro Bowl. He also thinks the Steelers will try to re-sign free safety Ryan Clark. ESPN AFC North blogger, James Walker, gives a 70% chance that the Steelers will retain free agent kicker Jeff Reed. Walker also list other under the radar free agents Read more [...]