Player Notes

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, ...

8/30/2023Half of the players the Pittsburgh Steelers released as part of their final cutdown Tuesday were brought back as half of their practice squad Wednesday.Eight of the 16 Steelers’ deadline day cuts were re-signed to the practice squad: cornerback Luq Barcoo, running back Greg Bell, defensive lineman Breiden Fehoko, receiver Dez Fitzpatrick, defensive lineman Jonathan Marshall, linebacker David ...

August 30, 2023 1:00 pmThe Jets last won the AFC East in 2002, a stinging fact of which coach Robert Saleh and the players are well aware.But they really don’t care.“These guys don’t care about what happened 20 years ago,” Saleh said on Wednesday. “They’re focused on the moment. It’s acknowledged, but it’s not their story. Their story is about to be written.”That story begins on “Monday Night Football” ...

NJ Advance Media for NJ.comUndrafted rookie receiver Xavier Gipson knew it was going to be tough to make the Jets roster, no matter how well he played in training camp and the preseason. So even after he performed quite well in training camp and the preseason, he was not surprised when the coaches called him into the facility before roster cutdown day and began the meeting by saying “sorry.”He was ...