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Getty Images Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has resumed throwing the ball as he continues rehabbing from right elbow surgery and everyone in Pittsburgh remains confident that the veteran will be ready to go at the start of the 2020 season. A return to form for Roethlisberger would be...

Getty Images The following are PFT’s top 100 free agents for the start of the 2020 league year. The rankings include prospective unrestricted and restricted free agents, as well as released players. The list will be updated as events warrant, with signings, tags and re-signings denoted when...

Getty Images The Steelers released a video Saturday containing no comment. Not that it needed any. A video is worth more than a thousand words. It showed Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger throwing a football again, albeit lightly. The throwing session came during an evaluation in Los...

Getty Images Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is throwing footballs again after elbow surgery, and he says his doctor believes he’s on pace to be cleared to full activities before training camp. Roethlisberger told Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that his medical report was...

Getty Images Former Steelers assistant coach Dan Radakovich died Thursday. He was 84. Robert Morris, where Radakovich spent 13 seasons as an assistant coach, announced his passing. Radakovich was the Steelers’ defensive line/linebackers coach in 1971. He coached at the University of Colorado...

Getty Images With the NFL and NFL Players Association closing in on a new CBA that will expand the playoffs from 12 teams to 14, it’s tempting to consider how seven teams per conference would have played out if seven teams per conference had previously been in place. So we’ve gone 10 years down...

Getty Images Antonio Brown never played a game for the Raiders. Still, he wants them to pay him. The unemployed receiver filed a grievance against the Raiders over lost wages, including $30 million in guarantees, during the 2019 season. An arbitrator will hear that grievance in May, according...

Getty Images The NFL seems to realize the Rooney Rule is broken. Figuring how to fix it has proven to be a more difficult problem. After the league went through an offseason that left as many minority coaches as the previous year (four), the NFL is trying to figure out a way to increase...

Getty Images Linebacker Bud Dupree may be changing teams this offseason and it looks like he’ll have someone new representing him in negotiations on a new contract in Pittsburgh or elsewhere. Liz Mullen of Sports Business Journal reports that Dupree has left CAA Sports and is looking for a new...

Getty Images The Steelers remained in the playoff race into the final weeks of the regular season despite on offense that ranked near the bottom of the league. Offensive struggles were a result of playing almost the entire year with Mason Rudolph and Devlin Hodges at quarterback, so most of...

Getty Images In a possible effort to avoid being regarded as a reckless, Vontaze Burfict-type NFL villain, Browns defensive end Myles Garrett has accused Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph of provoking a helmet-to-unhelmeted-head attack by uttering a racial slur. Rudolph’s agent/lawyer has...

Getty Images The Steelers have found a new assistant coach, one with playing and coaching experience in the NFL. The team announced the addition of Ike Hilliard as their new wide receivers coach. Hilliard has been with Washington the last six seasons, and has nine years of coaching experience...

Getty Images Whatever happens moving forward between Browns defensive end Myles Garrett and Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph, one thing is clear: Myles Garrett has told a story that he’ll have to own, if/when Rudolph files a defamation lawsuit. In last week’s ESPN interview, which came only...

Getty Images Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin released a statement over the weekend in response to Browns defensive end Myles Garrett‘s allegation during an interview with Mina Kimes of ESPN that Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph used the N-word during their altercation at the end of a game...

Getty Images Wide receiver Antonio Brown has been handing out apologies this month, including one to the Steelers for the way he ended his tenure with the team during and after the 2018 season. Brown’s apology and his bid to get back into the NFL came up when Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin...

Getty Images Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will be good to go at the start of the season. That’s the word from head coach Mike Tomlin, who said on ESPN this morning that he doesn’t have a doubt that Roethlisberger will start Week One. “I have no hesitation,” Tomlin said...

Getty Images Former Browns General Manager John Dorsey confirmed Myles Garrett‘s account of what happened immediately after the defensive end’s ejection Nov. 14 against the Steelers. Garrett said he told Dorsey, coaches and defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi that Mason Rudolph‘s use of a racial...

Getty Images DC Defenders wide receiver Eli Rogers is playing today’s XFL game with a heavy heart. Rogers’ mother died this week and her funeral is today, according to the ABC broadcast of today’s game. Rogers chose to play, and on the first drive he played very well, catching all three of...

Getty Images During the Scouting Combine, plenty of NFL business unrelated to the Scouting Combine gets done. Free-agent receiver Antonio Brown claims that the business this year will include him meeting with teams. “I’m excited and looking forward to seeing them guys at the Combine,” Brown...

Getty Images In an earlier item regarding the absence of recorded audio evidence confirming or debunking Browns defensive end Myles Garrett‘s claim that Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph uttered a racial slur just before Garrett removed Rudolph’s helmet and whacked him over the head with it...