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Getty Images Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been on the field for voluntary Organized Team Activities, and he’s been in the classroom as well, learning a new offense that Matt Canada is installing in his first year as Pittsburgh’s offensive coordinator. Canada arrived in...

Getty Images Richard Bartlett, the 23-year-old brother of Steelers defensive lineman Stephon Tuitt, was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Wednesday in Johns Creek, Georgia. “You are in heaven living stress free,” Tuitt wrote on Instagram with a picture of the two of them. “I miss you so so so...

Getty Images Free agent safety Malik Hooker remains unsigned but is continuing to line up visits. Hooker visited the Steelers yesterday, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. The last time we heard from Hooker was a month ago, when he visited the Dolphins. He has also visited the Cowboys. The...

Getty Images The Steelers picked Chase Claypool in the second round of last year’s draft, and he became an immediate key contributor. He led all rookies with nine receiving touchdowns, while making 62 receptions for 873 yards. The vast majority of those catches and yards came from Ben...

Getty Images Tunch Ilkin first arrived in Pittsburgh 43 years ago. After a career spanning 13 years as a Steelers player and 23 seasons on the team’s radio broadcasts, Ilkin is retiring to focus on ALS treatment. “I was diagnosed with ALS in September 2020, and I want to spend this time...

Getty Images Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster said last month that he will be playing on the outside of the team’s offensive formations more often in the scheme being installed by offensive coordinator Matt Canada this offseason and we’ve been hearing more about how things will look...

Getty Images Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was emotional while sitting on the bench with center Maurkice Pouncey at the end of last season’s playoff loss to the Browns and that reaction foreshadowed Pouncey’s retirement announcement early in the offseason. Pouncey had been snapping...

USA TODAY Sports After the 2020 season, it was clear that if quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was going to return to Pittsburgh in 2021, something would have to change. That something, specifically, was his contract. Roethlisberger entered the offseason with a contract that carried a cap charge...

Getty Images The Steelers have Ben Roethlisberger back at quarterback for an 18th season, but Roethlisberger said on Tuesday that it won’t be the same old song on offense in Pittsburgh. Matt Canada replaced Randy Fichtner as the team’s offensive coordinator this offseason and Roethlisberger...

Getty Images The Steelers didn’t do a very good job of throwing the ball down the field in 2020. On Tuesday, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger did his best to explain why the Steelers didn’t do a better job of going vertical. “You know I had total reconstruction on my elbow,” he told reporters...

Getty Images Ben Roethlisberger said the $5 million pay cut he took was his idea. The new contract, which reduced his $41.25 million cap hit, voids after the 2021 season. Thus, all signs point to this being the 39-year-old Roethlisberger’s final season as the Steelers’ quarterback...

Getty Images The Packers won’t trade the quarterback who doesn’t want to play for them because the Packers don’t believe he won’t play for them. That’s the gist of a recent report from Matt Schneidman of TheAthletic.com, and it makes plenty of sense. Schneidman writes that the Packers would...

Getty Images Bill Cowher finished his coaching career with two Super Bowl appearances. He could have had two more, but for AFC Championship encounters with the Patriots in 2001 and 2004. Cowher’s new autobiography, written with Michael Holley, debuts today. The book contains no mention of...

USA TODAY Sports The Steelers are loaded at receiver. One of their best young receivers wouldn’t mind seeing them become even more loaded at receiver. Chase Claypool recently was asked by TMZ.com about the possibility of the team trading for Falcons receiver Julio Jones. “I would love him in...

Getty Images COVID-19 got in the way of Tyson Alualu returning to the Jaguars. He and the Steelers are grateful for the way it worked out. The defensive lineman, a first-round choice of the Jaguars in 2010 who spent seven seasons in Jacksonville, agreed to a two-year, $6 million contract with...

Getty Images Free agent running back Le'Veon Bell says he will play and play well this season. In a series of tweets, Bell went back and forth with fans, saying anyone who doubts him will be proven wrong. “2021 will be the year y’all reminded,” Bell wrote. So where will Bell go? He says that...

USA TODAY Sports Pittsburgh is getting closer to having its entire 2021 draft class under contract. After signing first-round running back Najee Harris to his deal earlier on Tuesday, the Steelers announced second-round tight end Pat Freiermuth put pen to paper Tuesday afternoon on his...

Getty Images The Steelers went into the offseason with uncertainty about whether Ben Roethlisberger would return as their quarterback for 2021. Roethlisberger agreed to a new contract that reduced his $41.25 million cap hit, and he thus will play an 18th season in Pittsburgh. Teammate Cam...

USA TODAY Sports The Steelers were one of several teams whose players issued a statement about voluntary workouts during the offseason program. While they said in April that they collectively wouldn’t attend in-person workouts, they still reportedly had about 75 percent of their roster at the...

USA TODAY Sports Running back Najee Harris has signed his first NFL contract. The Steelers announced that the first-round pick agreed to his deal on Tuesday. It’s a four-year pact with a team option for a fifth season. Harris was the first running back taken in this year’s draft and many...