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Nashville TennesseanThe Tennessee Titans submitted one waiver claim following NFL cutdown day, adding cornerback Kindle Vildor from the Chicago Bears.Vildor has been in the NFL for three years since the Bears picked him in the fifth round of the 2020 NFL Draft. He's played in 44 games, making 22 starts. He has 97 tackles, 10 pass breakups, one interceptions and one sack in his career.By claiming Vildor, ...

Nashville TennesseanThat didn't take long.The Tennessee Titans have signed 16 players they waived Tuesday back onto their practice squad Wednesday morning. Per NFL rules, the Titans had to trim their roster down to just 53 active players Tuesday, which resulted in the Titans waiving almost 40 players over the course of the last week. One of those players, Thomas Odukoya, doesn't count against the limit ...

Nashville TennesseanNow that the Tennessee Titans have trimmed their roster to 53 players, it's time to talk depth chart.Per NFL rules, the Titans cut their roster down to just 53 players on Tuesday, parting ways with nearly 40 players who spent the offseason with the team over the course of a week. Some players who survived the cut were more surprising than others, including five undrafted rookies ...

8/30/2023Twenty-three days. That’s how long Kyle Dubas held the record for executing the most ridiculously lopsided trade in Pittsburgh sports history (recent history, anyway).Omar Khan smashed it to pieces.I’d still say it’s pretty remarkable that Dubas, the Penguins’ new president of hockey operations, reeled in Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Erik Karlsson for a gently used Mikael Granlund and ...

8/30/2023The Steelers are signing veteran cornerback Desmond King, who was released by the Houston Texans, and adding him to their 53-man roster, team sources have told the Post-Gazette.To make room for King, who was a first-team All-Pro in 2018, the Steelers are expected to release punter Braden Mann.The Steelers were looking to add a cornerback from the waiver wire because their depth on the outside ...

8/30/2023When it came time to choose which players would serve as reserves along the offensive line, the Steelers chose youth and versatility over experience. Among the four backups on the initial 53-man roster, three have no NFL experience.That might seem like it’s a big risk for the coaches, but rookies Broderick Jones and Spencer Anderson and Dylan Cook, a first-year player who spent last season ...

8/30/2023Tuesday’s “First Call” has some advice for young Pittsburgh Steelers from a former rival of the club. A number of ex-Steelers and Pitt Panthers didn’t survive NFL cutdown day. And we look at how the success of the Steelers draft class ended up influencing the depth chart.Betting on BentonThe performance of one of the Steelers rookies dictated at least one of the Steelers roster cuts Tuesday.Second-round ...

8/30/2023A day after setting their initial 53-man active roster, the Pittsburgh Steelers began to tweak it by reportedly signing versatile former All-Pro cornerback Desmond King.The NFL Network reported the deal, and details on term of value were not yet available.Entering his seventh NFL season, King was released by the Houston Texans this week after playing in all 17 games and starting 13 for them ...

8/30/2023Dylan Cook learned he had made the Pittsburgh Steelers’ initial 53-man roster the same way the average fan did Tuesday afternoon.He saw it posted on the team website.The 25-year-old tackle and first-year player from Montana spent the day playing a FIFA soccer video game to pass the time until the 4 p.m. deadline came and went.“I probably played for five hours,” Cook said Wednesday. “That’s ...

8/30/2023The Pittsburgh Steelers added another veteran option to their cornerbacks corps Wednesday, signing 30-year-old Anthony Brown to their practice squad.Brown played the past eight seasons for the Dallas Cowboys but joins the Steelers nine months after suffering a torn Achilles injury that ended his 2022 season. Brown has been a starter for roughly three-quarters of the 94 NFL games he has played, ...