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Football Hall of Famers
The Steelers are unique
in the NFL with not only the third most "primary" Hall of Famers but also
have the most of any franchise founded on or after 1933, the only franchise
with three members of ownership in the Hall and the only player to be
inducted in both the pro-football hall of fame and the baseball hall of
fame.
The following list
was taken from the Pro Football Hall of Fame's official website:[51]
Inductees
Award recipients
Former Steelers
in the Hall for contributions elsewhere
- Former Steelers
QB Jim
Finks, as an administrator with the Vikings, Bears and Saints.
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numbers
Super
Bowl MVPs
The following Steelers
players have been named Super
Bowl MVP:
All-time
team
As determined by a
fan vote in 2007:[76]
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Wallace, DeCastro, Adams to miss Steelers' OTAs (Pro Football Weekly)Three key Steelers will be missing when the team kicks off its offseason team activities on Tuesday, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sunday.
Mike Wallace: Likely to Skip OTA's (Rotowire.com)Update:ย Wallace is not expected to be in attendance when Steelers' OTAs start on Tuesday, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
Denver Broncos Should Sign Ryan Clady to Long-Term Deal: Fan's Take (Yahoo! Contributor Network)The Denver Broncos are looking to sign starting left tackle Ryan Clady to a long-term contract extension. Negotiations have just begun, and I would expect Clady to ultimately get paid like a top-10 left tackle. I believe he's worth it, and the Broncos need him to protect Peyton Manning's blind side for the next few years (and hopefully more).
Pasquarelli: Pittsburgh completes overdue overhaul of O-line (The SportsXchange)With quarterback Ben Roethlisberger now 30, and the team's most valuable player sacked an average of 43.5 times over the last six seasons -- including 40 or more sacks in all but one of those campaigns, and coming off an ankle injury last year -- Pittsburgh has drastically retooled its blocking unit.
The Shutdown Corner Podcast: Greg Cosell on the 2012 AFC North Draft (Shutdown Corner)With the draft over and all wrapped up, we thought it would be a good idea to get back on the phone with our buddy Greg Cosell of NFL Films and ESPN's "NFL Matchup," and talk about the NFL by division. Who did themselves the most favors in the draft, and who came up short when addressing their roster deficits?
The Shutdown Corner Podcast Greg Cosell on the NFC West draft
We started off with the NFC West last week , and we now move to the hyper-competitive AFC North. Appropriate, given Greg's recent post on the NFL Films Blog praising the Cincinnati Bengals' draft strategy . With that in mind, we asked Greg what he thought the Bengals, Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers did to bolster their teams.
Related: [Cosell onย quarterbacks ,ย running backs/wide receivers ,ย tight ends/offensive line ,ย OLB/DE/DT stars , the ILB/DB class , and overall draft review ]
Baltimore Ravens OLB Courtney Upshaw, and how he'll be tasked to replace Terrell Suggs: "The Ravens are very versatile with their fronts. Suggs would line up in two-point and three-point stances. He played a number of different positions and alignments -- that's what the Ravens do, and Upshaw fits that role. I don't think anybody's going to say that he's going to do what Suggs has done for a number of years -- Suggs is a pretty damned good player -- but the way Upshaw plays, I think he could eventually become similar to that guy."
Cincinnati Bengals OG Kevin Zeitler: "I seem to be in the minority here, and we'll never know how the Bengals felt because David DeCastro was gone when they picked, but I thought Zeitler was a little more complete than DeCastro -- I thought he was a better athlete. I thought he had more scheme-versatility, and he fits very well in a zone run game. I'm not sure DeCastro does. Now, DeCastro fits in the power run game better; that's what he did at Stanford. But given what the Bengals want their guards to do, I think Zeitler was the better choice, and would have been the better choice had DeCastro been available."
The Shutdown Corner Podcast: Greg Cosell on the 2012 AFC North Draft
The Cleveland Browns' first-round selections of Trent Richardson and Brandon Weeden: "Theoretically, you could look at it this way -- they ended up with Richardson and Weeden instead of Ryan Tannehill and Doug Martin. And I think Richardson/Weeden is the better combination ... in fact, I don't think, I know. Richardson, we don't need to discuss ... I thought he was the best player in this draft. Weeden has some concerns. He was the best pure pocket passer in this draft, but he's got meaningful and troublesome issues with pressure. That's a serious red flag when you transition to the NFL."
Steelers' Dwyer trying to break through (Pro Football Weekly)In the 2010 draft, the Steelers liked Jonathan Dwyer enough to take him seven picks before Antonio Brown. Brown, a sixth-rounder like Dwyer, has become one of the keys to the Steelersโ offense, a formidable receiving threat opposite Mike Wallace. Heโs also a Pro Bowl kick returner.
Cowher joins campaign to educate about melanoma (The Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) Bill Cowher wants to teach men about melanoma, a disease whose ravages he knows all too well.
Steelers sign 7th round pick Kelvin Beachum (The Associated Press)PITTSBURGH (AP) The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed seventh-round draft pick Kelvin Beachum. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Ben Roethlisberger: 49ers targeted my ankle (Shutdown Corner)Ben Roethlisberger played on a gimpy ankle in Pittsburgh's Week 15 clash against the San Francisco 49ers, and he did not play particularly well. He hobbled his way to a three-interception, two-fumble performance in a game that the Steelers lost 20-3. That Roethlisberger should have sat out was a widely held opinion among Steelers fans at the time.
Hindsight being what it is, that opinion looks more valid now than ever. The Steelers were thumped anyway, and Ben Roethlisberger also says that the 49ers attempted to further injure his gimpy ankle .
[Related: Former wide receiver Cris Carter admits to putting bounties on defensive players ]
Dan Patrick asked Large Benjamin on Wednesday if he felt like any team ever went after him with an attempt to injure a certain part of his body. Via Matt Maiocco at CSNBayArea.com:
"Um, wow, that's tough," Roethlisberger said. "I don't really complain about that stuff, either. But I think when we played San Fran, I felt like there were some things going on, some extra . . . Now, obviously, I did have the ankle and I was playing, so there was kind of a bull's-eye on there anyway. But for the most part, guys play tough and you go into a game expecting it. I expect to be tougher than them."
I know everyone's (rightfully) super sensitive in the wake of the Saints bounty scandal, but what exactly is the problem here? That one NFL player knew of another player's injury and then used that information to try and injure him further, to the detriment of the opposing team and the aid of his own? Then I guess we better formally investigate every football game ever played.
Broncos' front-office split gives Elway undisputed final say (The SportsXchange)Hired by Mike Shanahan, promoted by Josh McDaniels and retained by John Elway, Brian Xanders' four years with the Broncos saw him emerge as one of the few constants amid dizzying tumult.
Steelers sign 2nd round pick Mike Adams (The Associated Press)PITTSBURGH (AP) The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed second-round draft pick Mike Adams and seventh-round picks David Paulson and Terrence Frederick. Terms of the deals were not disclosed.
All-undrafted players team (National Football Post)Which players have a chance to make an impact despite not being drafted?
Las Vegas now has point spreads for 240 regular season games (National Football Post)Cantor Gaming released lines for every regular season matchup from Week 1 to Week 16 Wednesday morning.
Vegas sportsbooks release NFL spreads for every game through Week 16 (Shutdown Corner)If you're the type of person who's already interested in the line for the Week 8 game between the Chicago Bears and Carolina Panthers -- and, let's face it; you're on Shutdown Corner on a Wednesday afternoon four months from the start of the season, so we know the answer -- then you may want to clear the next 20 minutes.
Cantor Gaming, a company that runs a number of Las Vegas sportsbooks, has released lines for every NFL game through Week 16 of the 2012 NFL season. Want to bet on the Lions-49ers rematch? Hoping to get on the RGIII bandwagon early? Eager to throw some money on your favorite team to win after their bye week? Desperate to find another way to lose your paycheck in Vegas? You're in luck, my degenerate friends.
What do the odds show? Vegas loves the Philadelphia Eagles, has no idea what to do with Peyton Manning's Denver Broncos, wavers on the decimated New Orleans Saints and is fairly certain how Mike Mularkey's first season in Jacksonville is going to go. The season spreads contain few surprises -- the Indianapolis Colts are expected to be bad, the Green Bay Packers are expected to be good -- but are a good way to kill some time during the NFL's May doldrums.
A week-by-week selection of the most interesting lines (via Covers.com ):
Week 2
Detroit Lions (+3.5) at San Francisco 49ers
Week 3
New York Giants (PK) at Carolina Panthers
Week 4
New York Giants (+4) at Philadelphia Eagles
Week 5
Green Bay Packers (+9.5) at Indianapolis Colts
Steelers wrap up deal with Adams (National Football Post)Second-round pick from Ohio State comes to terms.
Raiders begin restructuring personnel department (The Associated Press)ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) Oakland Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie started restructuring the player personnel department by announcing on Tuesday the departure of four longtime employees.
Steelers sign 7th round pick Toney Clemons (The Associated Press)PITTSBURGH (AP) The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed seventh-round draft pick Toney Clemons to a four-year contract. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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