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Steelers decline options on Harris, Fields

From Mirror reports The Pittsburgh Steelers officially declined the fifth-year option for quarterback Justin Fields ahead of Thursday’s deadline, according to several media reports. He, along with 2021 first-round pick running back Najee Harris, will hit free agency in 2025, unless an extension, trade or unexpected use of the franchise tag comes to fruition. The fifth-year option would have paid Fields $25,664,000 in the 2025 season. Though the news became official on Thursday, it was no surprise that the Steelers opted to go this direction, as ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported ...

Steelers take building from inside out to extreme

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers spent February overhauling their offensive coaching staff, March doing the same to the quarterback room and the last week of April giving the offensive line a massive injection of youth. The huddle and the sideline will look significantly different this ...

Steelers get their center

PITTSBURGH — Arthur Smith walked in and sat down, a microphone in front of him and a Pittsburgh Steelers baseball cap pulled tight on his head. Four months after being fired in Atlanta, Smith is returning to his play-calling roots — and hoping to hit the reboot button on his career — as the offensive coordinator in Pittsburgh. Smith did little to articulate what exactly the Steelers will look like in the fall. Considering what Pittsburgh general manager Omar Khan did in the first two rounds of the NFL draft, maybe Smith didn’t have to. Khan selected offensive tackle Troy ...

Steelers get Huskie OT

By Will Graves The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers selected offensive tackle Troy Fautanu with the 20th overall pick in the first round of Thursday’s NFL draft, giving them a potential bookend to last year’s top pick Broderick Jones. The 6-foot-4, 317-pound Fautanu started 15 games at left tackle last season as the Washington Huskies reached the College Football Playoff final against Michigan. He won the Joe Moore Award, given annually to the top offensive lineman in the country, in the process. The 23-year-old Fautanu joins an offense that hit the ...

Center should be attention of Steelers

By Buck Frank bfrank@altoonamirror.com The Pittsburgh Steelers possessed one glaring need when free agency began last month. And they didn’t address it. With the NFL Draft beginning tonight in Detroit, the Steelers technically don’t have a starting center on their roster. That’s why the team should be thinking in that direction when they select their first pick at No. 20 — barring a trade. In free agency, the Steelers reshuffled their quarterback room (Russell Wilson, Justin Fields and Kyle Allen), signed an inside linebacker (Patrick Queen), defensive lineman (Dean ...

Steelers draft capsule

The following is the seventh of seven Pittsburgh Steelers position analyses for the 2024 NFL Draft, which begins Thursday: CORNERBACKS Current roster: Joey Porter Jr., Donte Jackson, Cory Trice Jr., Luq Barcoo, Thomas Graham Jr., Kalon Barnes. Nickel backs–Darius Rush, Josiah Scott Last five drafts: Porter Jr. (2023, second round) took over a starting job midway through last season and showed no signs of losing it. Trice Jr. (2023, seventh round) was emerging as an impact player in training camp before getting injured and missing the whole season. Tre Norwood (2021, seventh ...