What an eventful week it has been for the Pittsburgh Steelers, from being eliminated from the playoffs on Monday night to the surprise resignation of longtime head coach Mike Tomlin the following day, this offseason is off to a wild start.

With a franchise-record nine straight seasons without a postseason win, it’s not hyperbole to say that this is an organization at a crossroads, needing to turn over every stone in an effort to escape from the NFL’s dreaded middle-class purgatory. Over the last 48 hours, several of their top candidates have been revealed and unsurprisingly, there’s a common theme...

The Pittsburgh Steelers have cut loose their entire coaching staff from the 2025 team, following the resignation of head coach Mike Tomlin, allowing all of the team’s coaches to seek jobs elsewhere, with the staff being told they will only be retained if the new head coach seeks them out.

That’s a departure for the Steelers, who held over a half-dozen coaches from Bill Cowher’s staff to Mike Tomlin’s in 2007, and also kept one on the payroll from Chuck Noll’s final staff to Cowher’s first in 1992.

It also doesn’t sit will with at least one of the team’s...

Player: CB Joey Porter Jr. Stock Value: Up Reasoning: Joey Porter Jr. is coming off the best season of his career, but it doesn’t seem to be widely acknowledged. While his critics continue to harp on penalties, he has been arguably a top-10 coverage cornerback in the league. He had two more passes defensed in […]

Oklahoma Sooners quarterback John Mateer is the latest player to withdraw his name from the 2026 NFL Draft class, as Oklahoma announced that Mateer is returning to school for the 2026 season.

Mateer had been considered a late day two or early day three prospect if he had come out in what is a rapidly thinning quarterback class this season. Instead, he will return to school to attempt to battle it out in what looks like a loaded 2027 class.

Mateer saw his draft stock fall from a high of the middle of the first round by the middle of...

Popular sports television personality Colin Cowherd sparked debate this week with a bold take on how the Pittsburgh Steelers could better position themselves for the future, and it involved trading franchise cornerstone T.J. Watt for draft capital.

Speaking on The Herd, Cowherd revisited a stance he’s held for years.

“A couple of years ago, when I said I’d move T.J. Watt and get more picks, that was outrageous,” Cowherd said. “T.J.’s 0-for-5 in the playoffs. How outrageous is it?”

Cowherd is often criticized for delivering provocative, sometimes borderline idiotic takes, but this one may hit closer to an uncomfortable...

“I’m sorry” were the only words QB Aaron Rodgers could muster after former Steelers HC Mike Tomlin informed the players of his resignation. According to Mike DeFabo of The Athletic, their final meeting was an emotional one, hitting the veteran players the hardest. T.J. Watt just kept repeating the word “No” as Tomlin made the […]

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🏈 Former Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Jace Sternberger shared his favorite Mike Tomlin story

“My coolest Coach T story was when I just got signed to the team and he invited me to his house for Thanksgiving. He knew I had no where to go. I only had known him for like 4 days. First time I’d ever been to a HC house during the holidays,” Sternberger wrote on X.

My coolest Coach T story was when I just got signed to the team...

As the Bengals have often proven, stability doesn’t only come in the form of success. Sometimes bad teams keep doing the same thing over and over, too. That’s what the Bengals plan to do this offseason, according to director of player personnel Duke Tobin. At least that was the takeaway from longtime Bengals beat writer […]

Who is the frontrunner for the Steelers’ head coach job? One can debate whether the Steelers’ head coach vacancy is the hottest commodity on the circuit, but it’s certainly desirable. Purely from a pragmatic perspective, having the Rooneys are your family guarantees you a certain level of job security. The roster certainly has some holes, […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed wide receiver Brandon Smith to a reserve/future contract for the 2026 season, the team announced on Thursday.

Smith, 27, is entering his sixth professional season. He has played three games in his career, all with the New York Jets, over the last two seasons.

Smith first joined the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent out of Iowa in 2001, and spent the first two seasons of his career on the Dallas practice squad, without appearing in a game.

In the spring of 2023, he joined the DC Defenders of the XFL. He played in...

The Pittsburgh Steelers are searching for a head coach for the first time since 2007 and just the fourth time since 1969, as head coach Mike Tomlin resigned on Tuesday,

Steelers president Art Rooney II will lead the search, along with assistance from general manager Omar Khan, and they expect the process to take several weeks. The Steelers can start in-person interviews right away with coaches from non-playoff teams, while they’ll have to wait until Jan. 19, for playoff coaches that don’t make the conference championship game, and until the week before the Super Bowl for those that do.

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I know it doesn’t mean a thing. This is my preference for who I want to see become the Pittsburgh Steelers’ next head coach. Art Rooney II isn’t giving me a vote. But you guys like hearing what we *think* not just what we *expect,* and this is a monumental moment in franchise history. If Pittsburgh’s history repeats, […]