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Getty Images The Eagles and Steelers have not been among the NFL teams with fans in the stands for home games this season, but that could be changing. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced on Tuesday that the state is amending its guidelines for the number of people allowed to be at indoor...

Getty Images The Steelers had an unexpected bye week thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak in the Titans organization that led to their game being rescheduled for Week Seven. While that might not have been an ideal set of circumstances for Pittsburgh, there was an upside for one injured player...

Getty Images Pennsylvania is now allowing fans at sporting events, and the two Pennsylvania teams will meet in Pittsburgh on Sunday. The Steelers announced today that 5,500 fans will be in attendance, the first time Pennsylvania has had fans at an NFL game this season. “We are pleased to...

Getty Images Steelers practice squad lineman Jarron Jones was arrested today and charged with two felonies stemming from an alleged domestic violence incident. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Jones is charged with aggravated assault, strangulation and simple assault. Police say they...

Getty Images All teams have played three games. At least two teams won’t play at all in Week Four. Four more teams may not play in Week Four. The pandemic suddenly has affected pro football in a major way, and there’s no reason to think it will get any better, especially with flu season...

Getty Images The NFL has juggled the schedule to allow the Steelers and Titans to play this season after their game scheduled for Sunday had to be postponed. The league announced today that the Steelers-Titans game that was postponed because of the Titans’ COVID-19 outbreak will now be played...

Getty Images As of Tuesday morning, it appeared that the NFL had cracked the code on COVID-19. By Tuesday night, the vibe became much different and darker, with the league’s ability to stage 48 regular-season games seeming to be the product of luck as much as anything else. That luck ran out...

Getty Images The Steelers have an unexpected weekend off, but it’s not like players can really take advantage of it the way they have in the past. As Mike Tomlin pointed out to reporters Thursday in the wake of this week’s game with the Titans being postponed, this year’s rules dictate that...

Getty Images Titans head coach Mike Vrabel found out on Thursday morning that his team will not be playing at all in Week Four and told reporters on a videoconference from his home that he knew that was a possibility if more members of the organization tested positive for COVID-19. Two more...

Getty Images The Steelers picked up an unexpected bye week via the postponement of their Week Four game against the Titans. If the Steelers-Titans game moves to Week Seven (with Steelers-Ravens moving to Week Eight, when Pittsburgh would have had a bye), Pittsburgh will end up playing games in...

Getty Images The Browns signed receiver Ryan Switzer to their practice squad, the team announced Thursday. Switzer is in his fourth NFL season out of North Carolina. He has remained a free agent since the Steelers cut him out of training camp. He entered the NFL as a fourth-round choice of...

Getty Images Titans coach Mike Vrabel told his team at 8:30 a.m. local time Thursday that the league had postponed their Week Four game against the Steelers. “I think they were somewhat shocked,” Vrabel said, via Erik Bacharach of the Nashville Tennessean. “They wanted to play. They were...

Getty Images T.J. Watt earned more than bragging rights over his big brother in September. The Steelers outside linebacker was named AFC defensive player of the month, for the job he did leading his team to an undefeated start. In three games, he has 3.5 sacks, 10 quarterback hits, nine...

Getty Images We learned on Wednesday that the Titans and Steelers would not be playing as scheduled on Sunday. On Thursday, we found out that the two teams will not be playing at all in Week Four. The NFL announced that the game will be rescheduled until later in the season. The league said...

Getty Images Barring a further outbreak among the Titans, they’ll host the Steelers on Monday or Tuesday. Monday apparently is the target. Paul Kuharsky reports that the CBS crew that will be working the game has been told that it will happen on Monday night. This will give the Titans limited...

Getty Images Kamalei Correa has become the latest Titans player to land on the COVID-19 list. The team placed the outside linebacker on the reserve list Wednesday. The NFL found no close contacts with Correa, a league spokesman told Erik Bacharach of The Tennessean. The NFL already has...

Getty Images The postponement of Sunday’s Steelers-Titans has created a challenge for the NFL. It also will create another national TV window. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports that the game between Pittsburgh and Tennessee, which originally was lumped within the 1:00 p.m. ET...

Getty Images Ben Roethlisberger stated the obvious. Or what should be the obvious. But after fines to five NFL coaches for failing to wear face coverings in Week Two, an NFL investigation of the Raiders for a locker room breach and video of Raiders players at a large gathering Monday night, it...

Getty Images On the eve of a deadline for producing evidence related to a civil lawsuit, one of Antonio Brown‘s lawyers has decided he no longer wants to be involved. According to Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network, Carson Hancock withdrew from representing Brown in a civil lawsuit filed by...

Getty Images Sunday’s Titans-Steelers game has been postponed as a result of the multiple positive COVID-19 cases affecting the Titans, a league source tells PFT. The Titans have shut their facility down for the week because of the positive tests, which yesterday included three players and...