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Steelers announce release of 8 players

The Steelers have begun to trim their training camp roster.

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The Pittsburgh Steelers announced on Sunday they have release eight players in order to trim their roster down to the required 80 for this new COVID-inspired training camp.

Here are the players released.

QB J.T. Barrett

RB Ralph Webb

WR Quadree Henderson

OL Christian Montano

LB Christian Kuntz

LB Dwayne Hendrix

S Tyree Kinnel

DE Josiah Coatney

With so much uncertainty about the NFL season as well as players being moved to the reserve/COVID list, keeping up with who is on the team and who isn’t will be a struggle until the season gets started.

The one surprise name on this list is Barrett. I assumed that despite the roster restrictions, the team will still carry five arms into camp. Especially with Ben Roethlisberger on the mend. But releasing Barrett will let the coaches see exactly what they have between Devlin Hodges and Paxton Lynch for the No. 3 quarterback spot.

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Steelers to hold first padded practice on August 17

The Steelers will have a limited number of padded practices this training camp.

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The Pittsburgh Steelers are on track to report to training camp on Tuesday, July 28. However, based on the agreement reached between the NFL and the NFLPA, padded practices will come much later.

Pittsburgh won’t have their first padded practice until August 17, with their first regular-season game coming against the New York Giants on September 14.

Without any preseason games, the onus on the Steelers will be to use the limited number of padded practices to attempt to simulate real game situations to the best of their ability. Despite this, look for every team including Pittsburgh to use a week or two of the regular season to knock the rust off.

Prior to putting on the pads, the Steelers will spend training camp in phases including COVID-19 testing, conditioning, small group work and finally walk thru activities. Teams will be allowed a maximum of 14 padded practices during training camp.

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NFL reduces training camp rosters to 80

The league and the players have agreed to cut back training camp rosters.

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The NFL and the NFLPA have been haggling the details of how to have a season for the better part of two weeks. It is a challenging process when you have something like professional football happening in the midst of a global pandemic. But it seems with almost no time left to talk about it, the two sides have come together to iron out the major details on how to make this work for all parties involved.

One of the biggest issues for the league had to do with the size of training camp rosters. Teams typically bring 90 players to training camp and use the preseason to trim the roster down to 53. But with concerns over COVID-19 and a zero preseason games, the value of such a large roster didn’t outweigh the potential risk.

This means teams will have to release players prior to the start of training camp to get their number down to 80. This means for 320 potential NFL hopefuls, their NFL dreams are on hold. These guys will continue to train and you can bet teams will be shuffling guys on and off of the roster during camp to account for injuries and as a way to evaluate more players within the confines of the rules.

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