You’ve heard of the Swiss Army knife, the iconic pocketknife that can do it all. Well, the Pittsburgh Steelers and first-year running backs coach Ramon Chinyoung Sr. want to make it clear they have an alternation on that within the running backs room. They have a “Swiss Navy knife” thanks to the presence of rookie […]

Jalen Ramsey was meant to be a chess piece in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ secondary last year, but he got stuck as a full-time safety after an injury to DeShon Elliott. With much improved depth in 2026, Ramsey should once again be available to roam the back half of Pittsburgh’s defense. Assistant head coach and secondary […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers signed RB Rico Dowdle, a Mike McCarthy favorite, this offseason. Dowdle was McCarthy’s lead back toward the end of his tenure with the Dallas Cowboys, and McCarthy has offered a lot of praise for Dowdle since being signed. That’s led to questions of whether Dowdle will be the Steelers’ lead back over […]

Season 16, Episode 141 of The Terrible Podcast is now in the can. In this Wednesday morning show, Alex Kozora and I get right into discussing how excited we are to hear from several of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ coaches on Wednesday afternoon as part of the team resuming OTA practices this week. The Steelers re-signed […]

So far, so good for rookie wide receiver Germie Bernard. Though the Steelers are two months away from putting the pads on at training camp and four months away from regular-season action, Bernard’s earned high marks during his first 30 days with the team. Standing out in OTA sessions, new wide receivers coach Adam Henry […]

The schedule has been mostly set for the 2026 Pittsburgh Steelers. While the team is currently holding OTAs, there isn’t much actual football yet to discuss at this point in the calendar. That won’t begin until the team heads up to Latrobe this summer for training camp, and we won’t have any meaningful football until mid-September.

So to fill the time, we at Read & React wanted to take a look at the Steelers’ recently announced schedule for the upcoming season. But just going through each game week by week felt too dull, so we decided to gamify this exercise...

The Pittsburgh Steelers don’t need their defense to be good in 2026. They need it to be dominant. The league’s highest-paid unit fell short last season, and fixing it is the quickest way back to competing for a Super Bowl. That puts enormous importance on new defensive coordinator Patrick Graham and his ability to finally […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers brought in veteran wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling in the middle of the 2025 NFL season, bringing in Aaron Rodgers’ long-time friend and former teammate with the Green Bay Packers to aid the receiving corps. After being elevated to the active roster, Valdes-Scantling had 10 catches for 80 yards and a touchdown in five games with the Steelers.

MVS signed with the Dallas Cowboys in free agency. Speaking with Yahoo! Sports, Valdes-Scantling revealed why he didn’t return to Pittsburgh in free agency.

“I was still interested in playing for Pittsburgh,” Valdes-Scantling said. “But I was very adamant on...

While Roman Wilson has a new number—or rather an old one—it has nothing to do with sending messages. Not to himself, nor to others. Having spent his first two seasons wearing No. 10, he switched to 14, a more familiar figure. But when asked why, his answer had nothing to do with the Steelers moving […]

Omar Khan’s draft picks have enjoyed a long runway in Pittsburgh with 19 of his 21 previous selections still on the Steelers’ roster. But with 10 drafted rookies entering the building this year — including five Day 3 picks — the math gets a lot tighter in 2026. That reality puts extra attention on seventh-round […]

One of the big standouts from Pittsburgh Steelers OTAs has been QB Will Howard. After being showered with praise from multiple members of the organization throughout the offseason, Howard has, by all accounts, looked good during the Steelers’ offseason program. After his colleague Gerry Dulac mentioned Howard as a standout last week, Ray Fittipaldo of […]

What Mike McCarthy represents to the Steelers depends on who you’re asking, particularly for this upcoming season. A lot of fans seemed to want change for the sake of change, or to open a pathway out of mediocrity. In the NFL, however, that path usually involves collapsing before you can rebuild. The Steelers specifically did […]