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Getty Images The Steelers’ minority owners periodically huff and puff, but they lack the ability to blow anyone’s house down. As it relates to the recent contract extension given to coach Mike Tomlin, Ed Bouchette of TheAthletic.com reports that some were opposed to it. Owner Art Rooney II...

Getty Images Le'Veon Bell took to Twitter to apologize for sitting out last season. His apology wasn’t directed at the Steelers or their fans, though. The Jets star running back directed his tweet to fantasy owners who selected him. “This is loooong overdue!! but I want to take a moment to...

The Steelers drafted Devin Bush to replace a great player who has become an inspirational figure. They also gave up a bunch of stuff to get him/ So the rookie linebacker knows the expectations of him will be high, and that he has a lot to prove. “That I belong in this league,” Bush said, via...

Getty Images There was some question heading into the offseason about whether the Steelers would pull their option on linebacker Bud Dupree‘s contract for the 2019 season, but they ultimately decided to let Dupree play out the year with a $9.2 million salary. A contract extension remains a...

Getty Images When Steelers coach Mike Tomlin got an extension, G.M. Kevin Colbert didn’t. He confirmed to a group of reporters on Saturday that he doesn’t want one. Via Mark Kaboly of TheAhtletic.com, the 62-year-old Colbert made it clear that, after his current contract expires in April 2020...

Getty Images The Steelers unquestionably have become excellent at finding talent. The man primarily responsible for doing so could be taking his talents elsewhere next year. G.M. Kevin Colbert’s contract runs through the 2020 draft. As explained by Ed Bouchette of TheAthletic.com, Colbert...

Getty Images After the end of a dysfunctional 2018 Steelers season, there was word that Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would drop his weekly in-season radio show. Roethlisberger often made headlines and/or waves with candid comments about teammates during that show and dropping it was...

Getty Images Steelers cornerback Mike Hilton promised he wouldn’t holdout, and he didn’t holdout. Hilton reported to camp and confirmed he had signed his exclusive rights free agent tender Thursday. Hilton hadn’t signed his $645,000 tender in hopes of getting a long-term deal. Via video from...

Getty Images The Texans activated defensive end J.J. Watt from the physically unable to perform list on Thursday and he took part in the team’s first practice of training camp. His brother probably will not be taking part in the first practice of Steelers camp. Linebacker T.J. Watt experienced...

The Steelers have committed to coach Mike Tomlin through 2021. It amounts to a one-year extension. Usually, he gets a two-year extension. What does he think about that? “Nothing,” Tomlin told reporters on Thursday. “I really don’t think a lot about it to be quite honest with you. I focus on the...

Getty Images The Steelers gave Mike Tomlin a one-year extension on Thursday. Cornerback Joe Haden hopes to join his coach with a deal of his own before the season starts. Haden’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, and Steelers General Manager Kevin Colbert are talking, Haden said. “We’re communicating...

Getty Images The Steelers have only had three head coaches since the start of the 1969 season and that’s set to remain the case through at least the 2021 season. The team announced on Thursday that Mike Tomlin has signed a one-year contract extension. His deal was set to expire after next...

Getty Images The Steelers of the 1970s, which won four of four Super Bowls, put nine players and one head coach in the Hall of Fame. The Super Bowl-winning Patriots teams of the 2000s, which one three and appeared in another, will get their first Hall of Famer in two weeks. Former Patriots...

Getty Images D’Brickashaw Ferguson is back with the Jets, but not as a left tackle. The longtime fixture on the team’s offensive line retired after the 2015 season and he’s trying his hand at another role this summer. The Jets announced that Ferguson and his former teammate Calvin Pace are...

Getty Images The Cowboys haven’t reached the NFC Championship Game since winning their last Super Bowl in 1995. Yet, they remain America’s Team and the World’s Team for that matter. Nine of the 50 highest-rated sports TV broadcasts in 2018 were regular-season games featuring the Cowboys...

With the Patriots running a little short on wideouts at the moment, they’re looking at possible reinforcements. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Patriots are working out former Steelers wide receiver Justin Hunter. Hunter caught seven passes in 12 games with Pittsburgh the last...

Getty Images The fifth-year option is a powerful tool, and teams with 2015 first-round picks who panned out are using it, extensively. Of the 2015 first-rounders whose fifth-year options were exercised, only one of them — Rams running back Todd Gurley — has gotten a second contract. All of...

Getty Images The Steelers didn’t make it to a single Super Bowl with Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell both on the roster. Now, they’ll try to get there with neither of them. The offseason has spent much of the last year reeling from dysfunction, starting with Bell’s holdout and continuing with...

Getty Images The new season of All or Nothing debuted Friday, to little buzz and even less fanfare. For some reason, Amazon and NFL Films opted to hold the fourth season of the better-than-Hard-Knocks program until the eve of the launch of training camps, all but guaranteeing that it will get...

Getty Images Bert Rechichar, a Pro Bowl defensive back who also kicked and once owned the NFL record for longest field goal, has died at the age of 89. A star on both offense and defense at Tennessee, Rechichar was selected by the Browns with the 10th overall pick in the 1952 NFL draft. After...