The Pittsburgh Steelers Blog

Picking 24th back in April's 2012 NFL Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers made a pick that team management felt could have been made while wearing a mask. Stanford's right guard road-grater David DeCastro, he of the 39 Pac-12 starts and 96.88 senior year blocking consistency mark, dropped to Pittsburgh in the draft's first round and had […]

THE GOOD INJURY NEWS Steelers OLB LaMarr Woodley made it through a full practice on Wednesday after missing two games, and much of a third, due to an ankle injury. Woodley, who has been criticized by even his own position coach Keith Butler for being out of shape at points this year, made sure to […]

Step aside, New York Yankees. Move over, Boston Red Sox. There's a new spoiled rich kid team in town: the Los Angeles Dodgers. After signing Zack Greinke to a six year, $147 million contract yesterday, the Dodgers have boosted their payroll up to roughly $225 million, well beyond anyone else in baseball. Considering $208 million […]

RUN GAME LACKING The Pittsburgh Steelers managed just 32-yards rushing on 10 combined carries between Jonathan Dwyer (8-32yds) and Issac Redman (2-0yds) in their loss to San Diego. Included in that were failed conversion on two 3rd-and-1s and one 4th-and-1. After the game, Redman said he won't know what went wrong in the run game […]

Since taking over for Paul Tagliabue in 2006, Roger Goodell has quickly become public enemy number one for most football fans. Whether it was his initially strict conduct policy that has faded in intensity over time, his mishandling of the New England Patriots' "Spygate" scandal, or the NFL lockout in 2011, Goodell has not been […]

Steelers nose tackle Casey Hampton told reporters before the Baltimore game that a yearly ritual at M&T Bank Stadium during pregame is accepting a hot dog from a Ravens fan. Until this year, when Hampton's 'guy' didn't show up. "No, he wasn't there," Hampton chuckled. "Y'all pumped it up, man, he's probably embarrassed. A big […]

Without Ben Roethlisberger, the Pittsburgh Steelers are given little to no chance of beating the Baltimore Ravens this Sunday and it's easy to see why. The Ravens have won four straight games against the Steelers with Ben Roethlisberger starting in three of those games. On top of that, the Ravens have won their last 13 […]

They say it takes four full seasons to determine how an NFL draft class has shaped out, so to be fair, calling the 2009 class one of the worst classes in recent history after three years and twelve weeks could be criticized as rushed. But that doesn't make it untrue. The 2009 class will be […]