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Location ??? Ladd Peebles Stadium, Mobile, Alabama The North team coached by Jon Gruden and the rest of the Oakland Raiders staff was the second half of the practice schedule. Some North roster notes: Wisconsin OL Beau Benzschawel has a right pinky issues, will practice North Carolina State LB Germaine Pratt has right wrist injury, […]

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West Virginia wide receiver David Sills is seemingly off to a good start at the 2019 Senior Bowl after first measuring in at 6030, 210-pounds with 8 7/8-inch hands, 32-inch arms and a 75 4/8-inch wingspan. Not surprisingly, Sills caught a few deep passes during Tuesday’s practice from West Virginia quarterback Will Grier. The wide […]

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Mississippi State edge rusher Montez Sweat is a player who will have a lot of eyes on him during the week of the Senior Bowl and for good reasons as he’s currently expected by several analysts to be selected in the first-round of the 2019 NFL Draft. In an effort to provide you as much […]

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Location ??? Ladd Peebles Stadium, Mobile, Alabama Weather ??? Overcast and hovering around 60. Rain is in the forecast for today and Wednesday. The South team coached by Kyle Shanahan and the rest of the San Francisco 49ers staff will start off today’s practice schedule. Some South roster notes: Baylor WR Jalen Hurd, who measured […]

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Danny Smith says a 40 yard net punt is the gold standard he uses to gauge how successful his coverage units are. Though I disagree with that assessment, even by his own metric, the Pittsburgh Steelers fell woefully short of that goal. Jordan Berry netted just 38.8 yards per attempt in 2018, easily a bottom […]

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With the Pittsburgh Steelers 2018 season way behind us now, it’s time to start looking ahead to the offseason business at hand and particularly to the team’s 2019 salary cap situation. In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Steelers are currently in fairly good shape salary cap wise for 2019 and that’s thanks mostly […]

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Stellar quarterback play got the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots to the Super Bowl. Everyone knows that if you don’t have your guy under center, you’re not sniffing a Lombardi. But when each team has that advantage, as did the final four this past weekend, wins and losses come down to everyone else. […]

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The weigh-ins for the 2019 Senior Bowl took place this morning in Mobile, AL and our very own Tom Mead was present for them. Below are the measurements and other results for the South Team and North teams. Make sure you follow Tom on Twitter at @THMead3. 2019 SENIOR BOWL WEIGH-IN RESULTS SOUTH TEAM # […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers lost an impact linebacker in 2017 when Ryan Shazier suffered a spinal injury in December. The future of his playing career is in jeopardy, though he continues to devote himself to the goal of being able to return to the field. But has another impact linebacker emerged in his stead? In his […]

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Hello. Are you a Pittsburgh Steelers fan looking to vomit? If so, keep reading. The 2018 season did not go as planned for the Steelers. While their 9-6-1 record was not exactly terrible, the bottom line is that it fell short of being good enough to gain entry into the postseason, which is the bare […]

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It???s fair to say through at least the vast majority of the Pittsburgh Steelers??? greatest success, both in the 1970s and in the 2000s, the primary catalyst for their ability to remain on top rested on the fact that they played very good defense. The second half of their 70s dynasty may have become more […]

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From now until the 2019 NFL Draft takes place, we hope to showcase as many prospects as possible and examine both their strengths and weaknesses. Most of these profiles will feature individuals that the??Pittsburgh Steelers??are likely to have an interest in, while a few others will be top-ranked players. If there is a player you […]

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Can you imagine being the first team to lose to the organization that just went through an entire season without winning a game? That is very nearly how the Pittsburgh Steelers began their 2018 season, spared only by a fantastic play by T.J. Watt to block what would have been a game-winning field goal in […]

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The preparation for the 70th??annual Senior Bowl has officially begun with Monday evening???s introductory press conference. Executive director Jim Nagy, Missouri quarterback Drew Lock and Auburn inside linebacker Deshaun Davis took the podium and blew away the spectators, each for separate reasons. While Nagy showed incredible transparency when asked about the ins and outs of […]

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They say that fans are called fans for a reason; they are fanatical. And with fanaticism comes a need to know things, even those about which you have no way of knowing. When we are fanatical about something, we have a tendency to be susceptible to providing our own answers where we find none, because […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have a major set challenges facing them for the offseason of 2019 after they managed to miss the postseason for the first time in five years. The failure has been taken especially grievously because of the fact that the team was in position to control their own fate even for homefield advantage […]

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Stephon Tuitt was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He experienced playoff football in each of his first four seasons until the team failed to reach the postseason in 2018. Do you know how many teams in the NFL right now can claim to have drafted a […]

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Jack Del Rio is a name that commands a degree of respect for his ability to command a defense, finding more success as a defensive coordinator than he had as a head coach in separate stints. His first coordinating job game with the Carolina Panthers in 2002 and he took a team that allowed 25.6 […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers are out of Latrobe and back at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, also referred to as the South Side Facility. We are already into the regular season, where everything is magnified and, you know, actually counts. The team is working through the highs and lows and dramas that go through a typical […]

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Oklahoma State edge rusher Jordan Brailford reportedly had an impressive week while at??the East-West Shrine Game and during Saturday’s game he was credited with 3 tackles including a nice spin sack. Since then, we’ve had a few readers ask about him. In an effort to provide you as much information as possible when it comes […]

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