PITTSBURGH -- Thought to have been hijacked by the Cincinnati Bengals, the Pittsburgh Steelers still came out smiling after drafting Artie Burns, a cornerback out of Miami, in the first round last night.Burns was the first cornerback chosen in the first round by General Manager Kevin Colbert, ...
The beauty of covering the draft process is that all of the players are your players.For a while.But, the draft is at hand, and the 120 players with whom the Pittsburgh Steelers have met will soon be whittled down to seven drafted players.So, it鈥檚 goodbye.n Goodbye to Karl Joseph. I had a ...
The image of John Mitchell knocking on the door of Karim Kassam鈥檚 office comes with a soundtrack that might go something like this:Kassam: Can I help you?Mitchell: Um, yeah, Coach Tomlin told me to come see you.Kassam: About?Mitchell: Well, I asked him why he took my boys off the board. He ...
How do you like Jim Rutherford now?Remember this time last year when many were saying he was too old to be the Penguins鈥� General Manager? Remember last December when they were saying the same thing and second guessing his decision to bring Phil Kessel in from Toronto? He鈥檚 still 67 years ...
In the age of sports analytics, you pay attention when a website called VPG 缅北禁地 sends over a couple of charts comparing some of the top Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers over the years to the top wide receivers in this draft.If anyone knows wide receivers, it鈥檚 the Steelers, and VPG had ...
Since striking gold in 2005 by drafting All-Pro tackles in the second and fourth rounds, Mike Munchak has pretty much looked for the same traits in offensive linemen, particularly at the tackle position.In fact, the only lineman drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers since Munchak became the ...
