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Getty Images The Chiefs and Steelers already were supposed to have kicked off. They haven’t. Inclement weather forced officials to clear the field and the stands about an hour before the 7:30 p.m. ET scheduled kickoff. The game now is expected to start at 8:30 p.m. ET. The teams have...

Getty Images The Texans claimed cornerback Jermaine Ponder off waivers from the Steelers on Friday, the team announced. Ponder played collegiately at St. Francis University. He made 16 pass breakups last season, fifth-most in the NCAA’s FCS. Ponder signed with the Browns as an undrafted free...

Getty Images The Steelers aren’t going to play their actual quarterback yet, so they’re trying to decide who the backup is going to be. Via Chris Adamski of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Mason Rudolph will start at quarterback in Saturday’s second preseason game against the Chiefs. Josh...

Getty Images Donte Moncrief came into camp with a good shot of winning the Steelers’ No. 2 wide receiver job alongside JuJu Smith-Schuster and an injury early in camp may not have slowed him down much. Moncrief broke his ring finger during the team’s first padded practice and he’s been a full...

Getty Images The Steelers wrap up their training camp on Thursday and they marked the occasion by making a series of roster moves. The team announced the signings of tight end Micky Crum and linebacker Christian Kuntz. Linebacker JT Jones and cornerback Jermaine Ponder were dropped from the...

Getty Images Steelers left tackle Alejandro Villanueva was listed at 277 pounds when he first entered the NFL after a college football career at Army followed by three tours of duty in Afghanistan. That’s not big enough to be an NFL left tackle. So Villanueva has a problem many people only...

Steelers receivers coach Darryl Drake went to a local hospital with chest pains on the evening he died. According to Ed Bouchette of TheAthletic.com, tests showed no abnormalities, but doctors wanted to keep Drake overnight for observation. Drake declined. He decided to return to training...

Getty Images The Steelers traded up in the first round of this year’s draft in order to select Devin Bush with the 10th overall pick and the impetus for the move was what they were missing at linebacker in 2018. They were missing what Ryan Shazier brought to the middle of the defense before...

Getty Images Raiders receiver Antonio Brown, an excellent player, has nevertheless carried plenty of headaches with him to Oakland. His situation inspired Wednesday’s PFT Live draft. Which NFL players are worth the headache? Simms and I drafted three each. They’re named in the attached video...

Training camp is supposed to be the time when teams sequester themselves in football, isolate themselves from every worldly distraction. Reality intruded on the Steelers, and the sudden passing of wide receivers coach Darryl Drake changed everything for the team. They returned to the practice...

Hard Knocks avoided addressing the real issue with Antonio Brown‘s feet last week. The NFL reality show also didn’t mention the receiver’s helmet issue, which already was an issue by the night of the premiere although no one outside the walls knew it. The events of the past week have made it...

Antonio Brown‘s agent confirmed the star receiver’s injury to his feet. “It’s frostbite,” Drew Rosenhaus said, via Scott Bair of NBCSportsBayArea.com. Brown has finished treatment with a specialist, Rosenhaus added. PFT Live co-host Chris Simms reported a week ago that Brown injured his feet...

Hard Knocks didn’t wait long to address Antonio Brown‘s feet Tuesday night. Three minutes into the second episode of the season, the Raiders receiver’s burned feet took center stage. “Do you want to see it?” Brown asked the NFL Films crew. “Are you sure you want to see it?” Brown showed the...

Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown is on the hunt for a helmet of his preferred model that the NFL will let him wear. And he’s offering a memorabilia trade if he can get one. Brown wrote on Twitter today that if someone will give him a Schutt AiR Advantage helmet that fits him and is less than...

Getty Images The ultimate reality show now brings us the ultimate scanvenger hunt. And it remains to be seen whether Raiders receiver Antonio Brown will find a suitable Schutt AiR Advantage. Beyond the obvious fact that the helmet needs to fit Brown, it also needs to be less than 10 years old...

Getty Images A decision is expected this week in the grievance filed by Raiders receiver Antonio Brown over the league’s refusal to let him wear a helmet that is too old to be recertified for 2019 — and that Schutt no longer manufactures. If/when (when) Brown loses, what happens next? In a...

Getty Images Raiders receiver Antonio Brown wants to wear the helmet he wore during nine seasons with the Steelers. His insistence on getting his way has become one of the strangest off-field stories in recent memory, if not ever. Here’s an interesting question about the situation: Did the...

Getty Images The gavel has fallen quickly, and decisively. And just in time to be addressed by this week’s episode of Hard Knocks. (Eye roll emoji. If there is one.) PFT has confirmed that a neutral, independent arbitrator has ruled against Raiders receiver Antonio Brown in a grievance filed...

Getty Images The arbitrator has spoken, and so has Antonio Brown. It’s just not clear what Brown is saying. “While I disagree with the arbitrator’s decision, I’m working on getting back to full health and looking forward to rejoining my teammates on the field,” Brown said on Instagram...

Getty Images Raiders receiver Antonio Brown has a potential helmet loophole, if he chooses to try to use it. Brown can’t use his preferred helmet — a Schutt AiR Advantage — in 2019, because that specific helmet is more than 10 years old. However, because the NFL has not affirmatively banned...