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Steelers tight end Heath Miller spoke to the media for the first time since undergoing ACL surgery in December. Miller is attending OTAs on the South Side, but only in a watching capacity. Here is what Miller had to say:   Q: How is it going? A: I’m pleased with everything that John (Norwig) has [...]

Mark Kaboly  |  Tribune-Review   Everybody remembers what Warren Sapp said about the Steelers’ defense following the 2011 opening-season loss to Baltimore.   “The Pittsburgh Steelers. I have three things: old, slow and it’s over. It’s just that simple,” Sapp said.   Well, the “slow” and “over” were proven wrong almost immediately as that Steelers [...]

Day 2 — the final day that the Steelers rookie camp is open to the media — started to reveal some players that have a legit shot of either making the 53-man roster, or at least being an option for the practice squad.   This is what I saw:   *Le’Veon Bell wasn’t able to [...]

The Steelers held a two-hour rookie mini-camp session on Friday that was open to players who have three or less credited games to their resume. (Check out video of Landry Jones talking to the media http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGu25r_ymSU)   Now, that left guys out like John Parker Wilson and Larod Stephens-Howling, but the Steelers were able to [...]

The Steelers used its first pick in the sixth round (186th overall) on former Penn State receiver Justin Brown, who played his senior year at Oklahoma.   The Steelers also drafted a receiver in the third round (Marcus Wheaton) making it the first time since 2010 when they drafted receivers in the third and sixth [...]

The Steelers addressed yet another need in the fifth round when they drafted Illinois cornerback Terry Hawthorne with the 150th overall pick.   The Steelers lost Keenan Lewis in free agency and Cortez Allen is expected to replace him. Even though they did add William Gay via free agency, the Steelers are kind of thin [...]

The Steelers haven’t selected a quarterback as high as Landry Jones since they took Ben Roethlisberger with the 11th overall pick in the 2004 draft.   Jones marks just the third quarterback — Omar Jacobs and Dennis Dixon — since the Steelers selected Roethlisberger when they drafted the Oklahoma quarterback with the 115th pick (fourth [...]

The Steelers were so enamored with Syracuse strong safety Shamarko Thomas that they were willing to give up a 2014 third-round pick in order to jump into the third round to draft him. With the Steelers likely to get a third-round compensatory pick next year for the loss of Mike Wallace, it made getting rid [...]

I believe that exact quote from Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert went something like this:   “I don’t like to say we ‘need’ something more than we ‘want’ something,” Colbert said.   That’s nice and all but what happens when need and want intersect? Then you get what happened the first two days of the [...]

And with the 17th pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers select …   Whoa, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We will find out who the Steelers will select in due time, but let me get you primed for what will be the Steelers most important draft since … well, since their [...]