Author: Brooke Pryor

Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterJan 15, 2025, 06:00 AM ET

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PITTSBURGH — To Mike Tomlin, the Pittsburgh Steelers aren’t stuck.

To be stuck, he said Tuesday, would insinuate the organization is helpless, and he doesn’t feel that.

So does that mean he’s optimistic about the direction of the team after a fifth consecutive one-and-done postseason foray?

Not quite.

“I don’t know that I’m ready to be overly optimistic or sell optimism to you, either,” Tomlin said. “I’m just acknowledging what transpired and what has to

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Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterJan 14, 2025, 03:00 PM ET

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PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin has a message for any team considering inquiring with the Steelers about his availability in a potential trade.

“Save your time,” the head coach said Tuesday in his season-ending news conference.

After the Steelers’ fifth consecutive one-and-done trip to the playoffs, Tomlin’s job status and future with the organization has been a hot topic of debate and source of consternation among fans. Tomlin, who signed a three-year extension last

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Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterJan 13, 2025, 03:41 PM ET

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PITTSBURGH — Russell Wilson is scheduled to be a free agent this offseason, but the veteran quarterback said he wanted to remain with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

“That’s the plan,” Wilson said Monday at the team’s locker room clean out. “I love it here and everything else, and I think we have a great football team.

“Obviously it didn’t end the way we wanted it to, and I think there’s a lot

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Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterJan 12, 2025, 01:57 AM ET

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BALTIMORE — Safety DeShon Elliott didn’t mince words after the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ 28-14 AFC wild-card loss Saturday night.

Despite being with the organization for only one season, Elliott was clear in his frustration with the Steelers’ cycle of futility: a regular-season record above .500 followed by a one-and-done playoff stint.

“I know that in the past we’ve played well in the beginning of the season, and then we just s— the

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Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterJan 8, 2025, 06:00 AM ET

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PITTSBURGH — The last thing members of the Pittsburgh Steelers see before reaching the inner sanctum of their locker room at Acrisure Stadium are steely silver letters mounted on a black cinder block wall. They spell out the same phrase coach Mike Tomlin repeats countless times a day: The Standard is the Standard.

With six Lombardis proudly displayed in the trophy case, the established standard of the prestigious franchise is a world

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Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterJan 5, 2025, 01:31 AM ET

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PITTSBURGH — With 20 seconds and 60 yards separating the Pittsburgh Steelers from a fourth consecutive loss or a miraculous comeback, quarterback Russell Wilson uncorked one of his signature moonballs to George Pickens.

But much like the three thrown Pickens’ way before that, it, too, fell incomplete as it sailed past the receiver’s outstretched hands and bounced to the turf. Pickens had his man beat, but the pass

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