Category: Steelers News

Potential Steelers target receives permission to seek a trade

The Steelers could work a trade for wide receiver Deebo Samuel.

Last season the Pittsburgh Steelers were reported to have interest in trading for San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel. The team ultimately didn’t finalize a deal but they might get another chance.

According to ESPN NFL reporter Adam Schefter, the 49ers have granted Samuel and his agent permission to seek a trade that could send Samuel to a new team for the final year of his current contract.

When healthy, Samuel has been a dynamic player and would be a huge upgrade at wide receiver if the two sides can work out a fair trade.

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Super Bowl LIX: Predicting the winner in Chiefs vs Eagles

We are taking the Chiefs over the Eagles in the Super Bowl

Even though the Pittsburgh Steelers aren’t playing in Super Bowl LIX, we will be watching the game like most of you. The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles will square off with history on the line. If the Chiefs beat the Eagles, they will win their third Super Bowl in a row. This is something even the great Steelers teams of the 1970s couldn’t pull off.

Having watched nearly every game both of these teams have played, we are confident this game is going to be an instant classic. The showdown between quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes is worth the price of a ticket alone.

This prediction about who we are rooting for. If the Steelers aren’t in the game, there’s no one to root for. But we expect to see the Chiefs find a way to pull off a win because it’s just what they do. Mahomes is an elite quarterback but make no mistake, this is an elite coaching staff that maximizes the talent on this team.

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Cast your vote and tell us who you think will win the Super Bowl. We are taking the Chiefs over the Eagles is a close game as they make NFL history.

Chiefs 34, Eagles 27

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1 thing that must happen for the Steelers to lure in top free agents

Pittsburgh has to solidify the quarterback position before trying to sign any top offensive free agents.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are heading into free agency with plenty of money to spend. They should also have an opportunity to make some salary-cap cuts, re-do some contracts and really be sitting pretty to be big spenders when it comes to top-tier free agents.

However, none of that is going to matter until the Steelers do one big thing first. Pittsburgh has to have a veteran starting quarterback in place. Our preference would be Justin Fields which would then allow the Steelers to use a day-two draft pick in the 2025 NFL draft on a developmental quarterback like Jalen Milroe or Will Howards.

If the Steelers do decide to pass on Fields, they cannot wait to bring in a veteran. We hope it isn’t Russell Wilson but there are some names out there like Trey Lance or Jameis Winston if Pittsburgh wants to start over.

This isn’t to say any of them are the long-term solution but if the Steelers want to lure in a player like Tee Higgins or Amari Cooper, they want to know who is throwing them the football and they want to feel confident there’s someone there who can get them the football.

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NFL reporter calls rift between Steelers OC and Russell Wilson a ploy by QB

Russell Wilson struggled down the stretch but wants everyone to believe it wasn’t his fault.

At this point, we aren’t exactly sure what is going on with the Pittsburgh Steelers and quarterback Russell Wilson. After the season, Wilson expressed his interest in returning to the Steelers and said contract talks were already happened. Then the story came out and he and offensive coordinator Arthur Smith didn’t see eye to eye on the play calling and Wilson’s decisions on the field.

But according to NFL network reporter Aditi Kinkhabwala, that story was just a ploy by Wilson’s representatives to help calm the waters from a dreadful stretch at the end of the season.

This would mean Wilson isn’t working with the Steelers to return and is instead trying to partake in damage control to help him in free agency. Try and convince potential teams that his abysmal play in the final month of the season somehow wasn’t his fault.

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T.J. Watt finishes 4th in DPOY voting

T.J. Watt had his worst season since he was a rookie in 2024.

Thursday night the NFL Thhanded out their annual award at the NFL Honors. The only Pittsburgh Steelers who was in the running for any of the end-of-season awards was edge defender T.J. Watt. He was a finalist for Defensive Player of the Years but the odds were against him.

Denver Broncos cornerback Patrick Surtain II won the award and rightfully so. Surtain was far and away the best cornerback in the NFL. Watt ended up finishing fourth behind Surtain, Bengals EDGE Trey Hendrickson and Browns EDGE Myles Garrett. Watt did get three first-place votes.

Here’s how the voting broke down for the top four.

Patrick Surtain II 26-11-2-4-1: 330
Trey Hendrickson 11-10-9-8-2: 205
Myles Garrett 5-11-12-8-5: 162
T.J. Watt 3-7-8-11-3: 114

Watt finished 2024 with 11.5 sacks. This was his worst season since his rookie year if you exclude 2022 where he missed six games with injury. Watt failed to put up any stats in the team’s final two games which was completely out of character for him and really hurt the final numbers.

The reality is Watt’s teammate, defensive tackle Cam Heyward was a far more deserving candidate after racking up eight sacks and 11 passes defended as a defensive tackle.

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Steelers game in Dublin will be 2nd in team history

The Steelers played a preseason game in Dublin in 1997.

On Friday morning, the NFL announced the Pittsburgh Steelers would be playing one of the 2025 home games in Dublin, Ireland at Croke Park Stadium. This will be the league’s first regular season game in Ireland but it won’t be the first time the NFL has played a game at Croke Park. Or the first time the Steelers have played there.

Back in 1997, the Steelers and Chicago Bears squared off in a historical preseason showdown in Dublin.

Dubbed the American Bowl, it was a homecoming for the Rooney Family and the only time the NFL has played in Ireland. Head coach Bill Cowher brought his team into Croke Park Stadium and despite it only being an exhibition, put on a great show for the fans in attendance. The Steelers beat the Bears 30-17 on the strength of Kordell Stewart and Jerome Bettis.

The Steelers went on to finish 11-5 in 1997 and lost the conference championship game against the Denver Broncos.

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7-round Steelers mock draft comes up short for Pittsburgh

This is a good mock draft for the Steelers but this draft needs to be great.

Pro Football Focus is putting out a series of seven-round mock drafts for all 32 NFL teams. We decided to take a look at the Steelers edition and while we see where they were going with the picks, there was so much more that could have been done with the choices.

Here’s how the picks broke down:

First round: CB Azareye’h Thomas – Florida State

We like Thomas as a prospect but not in the first round. There’s a real possibility he does sneak into the bottom of the round but there are far more pressing needs to address here.

Second round: WR Xavier Restrepo – Miami

We don’t see enough from Restrepo to differentiate him from Roman Wilson as a player. The Steelers need a dynamic guy for the outside but if they want a guy to line up in the slot, he needs to be a bigger body.

Third round: DE Rylie Mills – Notre Dame

Defensive tackle is one of the team’s two biggest needs but Mills is more of an outside guy in the Steelers 3-4 and they need someone who can consistently line up inside and clog the middle against the run.

Fourth round: QB Will Howard – Ohio State

Howard in the fourth round is a great value pick here. If the Steelers re-sign Justin Fields, Howard is in a great spot to learn behind him.

Fifth round: RB Kalel Mullings – Michigan

Mullings is a plodding power back and while this is what the Steelers run game has been, it’s not where this run game needs to go in the future.

Seventh round: WR Efton Chism III – Eastern Washington

Chism is an interesting guy but if you spend a second on Restrepo, what are you going to do with Chism?

Seventh round: IOL Luke Newman – Michigan State

Solid interior player who would make for some nice depth if James Daniels leaves.

I know this sounds like none of the picks are good but that’s not true at all. This would be a well-received draft. And many of these players are very talented.

However, this draft has to be a home run. Starters, franchise guys and players who will be great which this draft is lacking at several positions.

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NFL insider believes Steelers are moving on from Russell Wilson

According to Jay Glazer, Russell Wilson is not returning to the Steelers.

According to NFL reporter Jay Glazer, the Pittsburgh Steelers will not pursue quarterback Russell Wilson and attempt to re-sign him during free agency.

The Steelers brought in Wilson along with Justin Fields last offseason in hopes of turning the Steelers offense around after the retirement of Ben Roethlisberger. Unfortunately, it was more of the same with the Steelers finishing 9-7 last season and getting bounced in the first round of the playoffs.

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Steelers still struggling from failed 2020 NFL draft

The Steelers were undone by a pair of missed opportunities in the 2020 NFL draft.

Be warned that I’m going to say something here that is going to ruffle the feathers of many Pittsburgh Steelers fans. And while some of this is hindsight, a lot of this could be seen coming a mile away and is now coming to fruition.

One of the biggest factors in why the Pittsburgh Steelers continue to struggle with getting over the playoff hump is because of a failed 2020 NFL draft. And when we say failed, yes we include the 2019 trade that cost the Steelers a first-round pick in exchange for safety Minkah Fitzpatrick.

Is Fitzpatrick a great player? Yes. Has he been a great player for the entirety of his time in Pittsburgh? No. That No. 18 pick could have been used much better for a position of need.

If the Steelers don’t trade for Fitzpatrick, they keep that pick and could have used it to select a generational talent who could have really helped this team down the line.

2020 NFL redraft

First round – WR Justin Jefferson

The Steelers viewed wide receiver as a top need based on how the rest of the draft played out and Jefferson has established himself a one of the three best receivers in the league.

Second round – QB Jalen Hurts

Ben Roethlisberger is coming off an awful injury where he missed almost an entire season and could have really used a plan beyond what they had at quarterback. Hurts has quickly become one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.

You could leave every other pick exactly the same and this becomes the draft that turns the Steelers franchise around. Pittsburgh was already ridiculously invested in defense so this draft bringing the offense up to speed made far more sense.

So in the final analysis, the Steelers could have had Jefferson and Hurts but instead got Fitzpatrick and Claypool. Of all the questionable moves this team has made or not, none sting quite like this except for passing on Lamar Jackson for Terrell Edmunds in the 2018 NFL draft and ranks well ahead of the Steelers trading up for linebacker Devin Bush in the 2019 NFL draft.

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Steelers met with sleeper RB at East/West Shrine Bowl

Jacory Croskey-Merritt was impressive at the East/West Shrine Bowl.

One of the biggest surprises from last week’s East/West Shrine Bowl was the play of Arizona running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt. His 97-yard, two-touchdown performance opened plenty of eyes including those of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

According to NFL draft writer Ryan Fowler, the Steelers were one of the teams who met with Croskey-Merrit during the Shrine Bowl.

Croskey came to the University of Arizona in 2024 after a breakout season with New Mexico rushing for 1,190 yards and 17 rushing touchdowns. But after only one game with Arizona, he was deemed ineligible for the rest of the year.

The Steelers could be hoping to land another Jaylen Warren as an undrafted free agent. There’s no doubt the skills are there with impressive agility and explosion. But he will be a 24 year old rookie and no matter how well he did in a single exhibition, that is going to hurt his draft stock.

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