Pittsburgh Steelers News

PITTSBURGH (AP) _ Outside linebacker Lawrence Timmons, the No. 15 pick in the NFL draft, agreed Sunday with the Pittsburgh Steelers on a five-year contract that could be worth as much as US$15 million and guarantees him $8,053,000 in bonus money. Timmons became only the third first-round pick in the April draft to reach terms and the first in the upper half of the draft. Previously, the only first-rounders under contract were 49ers offensive tackle Joe Starkey ...

Bill Cowher will wait until the end of the season to decide whether he'll return to coach the Pittsburgh Steelers. ``There will be something at the end of the year,'' Cowher said Wednesday during a conference call with reporters in Charlotte, N.C. ``I'll sit back and put a lot of thought into it and make a decision accordingly. ``Right now, my focus is purely on trying to find a way ...

Bill Cowher is not interested in coaching alma mater North Carolina State, even though the Super Bowl-winning Pittsburgh Steelers coach has only one season left on his contract. Cowher, a former NC State linebacker, has seen his name mentioned prominently in speculation since Wolfpack coach Chuck Amato was fired last weekend. Asked if he had any interest in going back to his former school, Cowher said: ``No.'' ``I've been getting ...

Polamalu was hurt during a 27-0 loss Sunday at Baltimore, and the team initially felt the injury might be serious. Tests revealed a second-degree knee sprain, and coach Bill Cowher said Tuesday that surgery is not needed. The All-Pro safety has not missed a game to injury in his four NFL seasons. He received a concussion Nov. 12 against New Orleans and sat out most of the game, but returned ...

Any chance the Pittsburgh Steelers had of returning to the Super Bowl was seemingly laid to rest by the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens sacked Ben Roethlisberger nine times Sunday and coasted to their fifth straight victory, a 27-0 blowout that left the Steelers with only a mathematical chance of reaching the playoffs. Baltimore (9-2) limited the defending NFL champions to 36 yards in the decisive first half. The nine sacks, ...

No NFL quarterback knows the Pittsburgh Steelers as well as Steve McNair does. McNair, the longtime Tennessee Titans star now with the Baltimore Ravens, has opposed the Steelers 14 times since breaking into the NFL 11 years ago. He's won in the playoffs against them, an overtime game in Nashville in January 2003, and has been difficult to defend because of his size and arm strength. To Steelers coach Bill ...

The Pittsburgh Steelers aren't saying if quarterback Ben Roethlisberger sustained his second concussion in slightly more than four months. Roethlisberger was fit enough to fly home with the Steelers following their 41-38 overtime loss Sunday in Atlanta, and to drive his SUV to a team meeting Monday, despite being briefly knocked unconscious during a helmet-to-helmet hit with the Falcons' Chauncey Davis. By definition, a concussion is a disruption of the ...

Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was apparently knocked momentarily unconscious and left Sunday's game against Atlanta after being hit by three Falcons defenders while throwing a pass in the third quarter. Roethlisberger appeared to receive a helmet-to-helmet hit in the face mask from defensive end Chauncey Davis immediately after releasing the pass, which was dropped by Hines Ward with 7:40 left in the third. Defensive end Patrick Kerney and linebacker Ed ...

The Pittsburgh Steelers and Ben Roethlisberger couldn't have played any worse for a month. The NFL now must be wondering how much better the Super Bowl champions can be after a convincing all-is-well performance. The Steelers revived everything they displayed in winning the championship as Roethlisberger threw his first two touchdown passes since the AFC championship game in a 45-7 rout of the Chiefs on Sunday. Despite not starting three ...

Great teams, poor teams. Good weather, bad weather. Playoff game, or one that barely counts for anything. Herm Edwards knows it doesn't make any difference. No matter the circumstances or the personnel involved, the Kansas City Chiefs coach knows how difficult it can be to win in Pittsburgh. That's why he seems to care little about the Super Bowl-champion Steelers' 1-3 start, Ben Roethlisberger's ragged play, the inconsistencies in their ...

After four games, it's still not too late for the Pittsburgh Steelers to get back into the AFC North race. Still, it's getting close to ``must-win'' time for the league's defending champions as they welcome Kansas City to Heinz Field on Sunday. ``We don't really have a lot of time,'' said Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward, who has taken over from the retired Jerome Bettis as the team leader and ...

Chad Brown, a Pro Bowl linebacker for Pittsburgh 10 years ago, was signed Thursday by the Steelers to add depth and experience at what suddenly has become a depleted position. They need him now, too _ Pro Bowl linebacker Joey Porter is out for Sunday's game against Kansas City and coach Bill Cowher said Brown will play, though mostly in pass-rush situations. ``It's kind of a crash course in everything,'' ...

Chad Brown, a Pro Bowl linebacker for Pittsburgh 10 years ago, was signed by the Steelers on Thursday to add depth and experience at what suddenly has become a depleted position. The Super Bowl champions (1-3), losers of three straight, added Brown, 36, a day after Pro Bowl linebacker Joey Porter injured a hamstring during a routine indoor practice for Sunday's home game against Kansas City (2-2). Porter is listed ...

Philip Rivers performed a trick that might have amazed Houdini. He made ``Martyball'' disappear in a flurry of passes. Rivers threw two touchdown passes, including a 22-yarder to All-Pro tight end Antonio Gates midway through the third quarter that lifted the San Diego Chargers to a 23-13 victory over the slumping Super Bowl champions. Gates' catch capped a remarkable 91-yard drive during which Rivers, in his first year as a ...

Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Ricardo Colclough will miss the rest of the season because of a neck injury that apparently developed during the bye week. Colclough's fumbled punt on only his fourth career return led to Cincinnati's pivotal score in the Steelers' last game, a 28-20 loss to the Bengals on Sept. 24. He did not report having any neck problems last week but, after returning from the weekend off, he complained of having a sore neck. Colclough practised ...

Turns out David Letterman isn't the only guy with a Top 10 list. Ben Roethlisberger has one, too. Roethlisberger's list isn't as witty or comical as Letterman's _ unless, of course, the slapstick-like offensive play of the winless Oakland Raiders is taken into account. It exists only in his mind, and it includes the 10 teams that passed him over in the 2004 draft. San Diego. Oakland. Arizona. New York ...

Pittsburgh's bye week came at the right time for the defending NFL champions, losers of two of their first three games. The slow start came with Ben Roethlisberger considered ``rusty,'' not a designation for the official injury list but one used to describe the early-season play of the QB. Now the Steelers have a trip to San Diego, which lost last week for the first time, allowing the Ravens and ...

Nine catches, 99 yards. Normally, about an afternoon's worth of work for Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward. Instead, they are Ward's statistics for the first three games of a so-far disappointing season for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's obvious Ward hasn't been himself, playing with a sore hamstring that he injured in training camp and is not yet healed. Ward, a four-time Pro Bowl receiver, is resigned to playing with the ...