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Texans coach an admirer of Tomlin

The Associated Press HOUSTON — Houston coach DeMeco Ryans and rookie quarterback C.J. Stroud admire the sustained success that coach Mike Tomlin has had during his tenure in Pittsburgh and hope to one day emulate it. “He’s definitely a guy I look up to, and you see his success and how his players rave about him,” Ryans said. “I think that’s what sticks out the most, and that’s the type of coach that I want to be — a man who truly cares about the players. Not just as players, but as men, and that’s where Coach Tomlin sticks out to me the most, and I have the upmost ...

Steelers at Texans

Records: Pittsburgh (2-1); Houston (1-2) TV: Sunday, 1 p.m., CBS Opening line: Steelers by 3, according to FanDuel SportsBook Against the spread: Pittsburgh 2-1; Texans 1-2 Series record: Steelers lead 5-2 Last meeting: Steelers beat Texans 28-21 on Sept. 27, 2020, in Pittsburgh Last week: Steelers beat Raiders 23-18; Texans beat Jaguars 37-17 Steelers offense: OVERALL (27), RUSH (30), PASS (17), SCORING (22) Steelers defense: OVERALL (28), RUSH (31), PASS (22), SCORING (20) Texans offense: OVERALL (14), RUSH (28), PASS (6), SCORING (18) Texans defense: OVERALL (16), ...

Steelers providing case study for RBs

By Will Graves The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The differences between Najee Harris and Jaylen Warren are stark. Height. Weight. Draft profile. College pedigree. Temperament. Approach to their job. It’s a dichotomy the Steelers believe they can exploit in hopes of getting the best out of both. It’s also a compelling case study in the ongoing debate on the value of running backs, a debate with no right answer and maybe no wrong one either. The 6-foot-1, 232-pound Harris is a 2021 first-round pick who starred at Alabama and arrived in Pittsburgh expecting to be the ...

Emergency landing now a ‘non-issue’

The Associated Press Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett was trying to get some sleep as the team was flying back from a win in Las Vegas early Monday morning when a flight attendant nudged him awake with some unwelcome news. “(She) was like ‘We have a Code Yellow alert’ and I was just kind of out of it,” Pickett said. “I was like, ‘What does that mean? We’re one step away from Code Red.’” Things didn’t quite get that far, though an oil pressure issue forced Pittsburgh’s charter plane to make an emergency landing in Kansas City. The plane landed ...

Pittsburgh hoping to maintain positives

By Will Graves The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin used the word “mojo” as a catchall of sorts when trying to describe what the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offense was missing during the first two weeks of the season. Here’s a few others Pittsburgh’s longtime coach could ...

Steelers’ plane has flight issues

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers’ charter flight home following a Sunday night win in Las Vegas made an emergency landing in Kansas City early Monday. Team spokesman Burt Lauten posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that “everyone on the plane is safe and we are making necessary plans to arrive back in Pittsburgh later today.” KDKA-TV, which has a pair of journalists on the team plane, reported the plane landed in Kansas City just before 5 a.m. The station reported the plane was dealing with an oil pressure failure in one of the engines. The team was originally ...