The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed wide receiver Cole Burgess to a reserve/future contract for the 2026 season, the team announced on Wednesday.

Burgess, 25, tried out for the team in November, and while the Steelers didn’t sign him at that point, they must have liked something they saw, because they circled back to land him for a future deal.

Burgess, 25, was an undrafted free agent of the Cincinnati Bengals in 2024. He spent his rookie season on the Cincinnati practice squad, and re-signed with the Bengals for 2025, but was released in August. He played in two preseason games...

Season 16, Episode 80 of The Terrible Podcast is now in the can. In this Friday afternoon episode, Alex Kozora and I get right back into discussing everything related to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ search for their next head coach. The Steelers have signed several players to Reserve/Future contracts since our last show, so Alex and […]

When Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin stepped down earlier this week, he did not give a specific reason for his departure in his statement, and has not had a public interview since the announcement. On Wednesday, Steelers president Art Rooney II said that Tomlin’s departure was more about family than football.

“I think that, in my mind and the discussion we had, it was probably more of a family-related decision than a football-related decision,” Rooney said.

On Friday, his family spoke. Kiya Tomlin, the wife of the former Steelers head coach, made an announcement through her fashion company. In...

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ season ended with a disappointing playoff loss to the Houston Texans. Then, Mike Tomlin stepped down as their head coach. That leaves them with a lot of uncertainty. However, the world doesn’t stop spinning as a result. The Steelers still have work to do, especially with the draft drawing closer. While they’re […]

With Mike Tomlin stepping down as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the franchise has entered into the great unknown after a 19-year tenure. Change can be good, especially in sports. The Steelers just weren’t getting over the hump with Tomlin in charge in the last decade, having lost seven straight playoff games, with five […]

In terms of former Pittsburgh Steelers players, there has been nobody more pubilicly critical of Mike Tomlin than James Harrison. Part of that is his new YouTube podcast, where it pays to say provocative things, but he seems to genuinely have issues with his former coach. He confirmed some of that on Friday’s episode of […]

After 19 seasons, Mike Tomlin is no longer the Pittsburgh Steelers’ head coach. While the team still wanted to keep him, Tomlin opted to step down. It was a surprising decision, but not an unwelcome one for everyone in Pittsburgh. Many fans were frustrated with the Steelers’ lack of playoff success. However, Tomlin was still […]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers held a virtual interview with Pittsburgh Steelers special teams coordinator Danny Smith, according to Mark Kaboly on X. Tampa Bay conducted a virtual interview with Steelers ST coach Danny Smith. — Mark Kaboly (@MarkKaboly) January 16, 2026 The Buccaneers confirmed this by officially announcing the interview. We've completed a virtual interview […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers will soon start interviewing candidates for their head coaching vacancy. While the Steelers haven’t gone through this process very often, they’ve had a particular formula in the past. Their three head coaches since 1969 have all been cut from a similar cloth. They’ve been young coaches with a background on the defensive […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers find themselves very busy in an unexpected head coaching search following Mike Tomlin’s resignation after 19 years as head coach. That has much of their attention at the moment. However, it’s officially draft season for the Black and Gold. The Steelers are set to pick No. 21 in the first round of […]

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it’s the continued fallout from the resignation of head coach Mike Tomlin, and specifically where we should expect a big turnover on the team’s roster.

The team has 28 pending free agents, so it seems like they were in line for a large turnover anyway, even before the emotional exit of Tomlin.

Alan breaks it down.

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After 19 years, a long, successful era of Pittsburgh Steelers football is over as Mike Tomlin stepped down on Tuesday following the AFC Wild Card loss to the Houston Texans. That decision was one that might have been coming for a while, regardless of what transpired this season, at least based on what Tomlin’s close […]