Welcome to BTSC’s Friday night open thread:

1. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and we’ve had wonderful sunny weather over the past week and a half, at least until Thursday this week, that is. It’s been rainy the past two days, and it looks like it will be this weekend too. What are some of your favorite rainy day activities?
2. We’re also starting to enter wedding season. I’m attending my first of the year next weekend. Does anybody have any fun wedding stories they’d like to share? Have you ever been a part of a wedding as a...

The Steelers have their first-round pick under contract with days left until OTAs. On Friday, Pittsburgh announced the team signed first-round offensive tackle Max Iheanachor to his rookie contract.

Per KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson, the deal is four years, $20.7 million with an $11.6 million signing bonus. Like all first rounders, Iheanachor has a fifth-year option.

The Steelers made Iheanachor, an Arizona State right tackle who started playing football in junior college, the No. 21 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft in late April.

Iheanachor is the seventh draft pick the Steelers have signed this offseason. Alabama wide receiver Germie Bernard,...

Welcome to the Steelers Afternoon Drive, our new daily podcast featuring all the latest Steelers news and analysis.

Brendan Howe and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers.

On today’s episode, we discuss what we know about what Aaron Rodgers was actually doing in Pittsburgh, if we are going overboard with the international games in the NFL, if Mike McCarthy will change his offense to be more accommodating for a player like Darnell Washington, the best path to a QB and what players could be traded?

Let’s go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all this!

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Happy Friday, and I hope yinz are doing well. The NFL’s offseason has continued to roll along since our last edition of Friday Five. The Steelers hosted their rookie minicamp last weekend, one that wrapped up a day short as Mike McCarthy allowed his players to head home for Mother’s Day. During that camp, there […]

Welcome back to the latest episode of The Terrible Take. Think of it as a super-mini version of The Terrible Podcast. A short, 1-3 minute episode seven days a week at 5:30 PM/EST, with Alex Kozora, Dave Bryan, Josh Carney, Ross McCorkle, Melanie Friedlander and Joe Clark telling you what’s on our minds. You can […]

Sometimes Week 1 can be a bit funny in the NFL. For example, last year the Las Vegas Raiders beat the New England Patriots on the road to open the season. Yet, the Raiders finished the year 3-14, while the Patriots went to the Super Bowl. To open their own season in 2026, the Pittsburgh […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers roster a pair of young quarterbacks in Drew Allar and Will Howard heading into the upcoming season, but neither is guaranteed to be the future behind center for Mike McCarthy’s team.

It appears executives for other NFL teams are well aware of that. ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler tried to get ahead on the 2027 offseason on Thursday.

“Teams out of contention will be tempted to look toward their April possibilities while trying to finish out a rough year on the field,” Fowler wrote. “A few executives consulted for this story are watching Pittsburgh — which has started seven...

According to KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson, the Pittsburgh Steelers have officially signed first-round pick Max Iheanachor to his rookie contract, securing one of the franchise’s most intriguing young building blocks before rookie minicamp begins.

According to the team, Iheanachor signed a four-year rookie contract worth $20.692 million, including a signing bonus of $11.598 million and a fifth-year team option.

Selected with the 21st overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, Iheanachor arrives in Pittsburgh with massive expectations after a rapid rise at Arizona State. The 6-foot-6, 321-pound offensive tackle was viewed as one of the most athletic linemen with one of...

The Pittsburgh Steelers and first-round pick Max Iheanachor agreed to terms today on a rookie contract. As the 21st overall selection, Iheanachor’s contract will be a four-year deal expected to be worth a total of $20.69 million with an $11.598 million signing bonus. His 2026 cap charge should come in around $3.8 million. His deal […]

Since the Pittsburgh Steelers’ home, Acrisure Stadium, opened in 2001, the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) has held its football championship games there each year, save for 2020 because of pandemic-related restrictions.

With the way that the Steelers’ schedule fell together for this upcoming season, it could make it hard for high schoolers to be able to take the field this time around.

The Steelers play the Denver Broncos at home on Black Friday (Nov. 27) and turn around to play the Houston Texans on Sunday Night Football nine days later.

With Pitt’s regular-season finale against Cal being on...

The Pittsburgh Steelers have handed out one contract extension this offseason, making Chris Boswell one of the highest-paid kickers in the league. But they’re far from done on that front. There are still a couple of players they’d like to extend, including an exciting young pass rusher in Nick Herbig. And he may be a […]

Finally, the NFL released it’s full 2026 schedule on Thursday evening. Steelers fans get to see when the Pittsburgh will be playing its biggest games next year, and this schedule is similar to year’s past. On paper, the Steelers have an easier start to the season, but it once again ramps up in difficulty towards […]