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Byline: Joe Rutter Jan. 20This is the first in a series examining the Pittsburgh Steelers' roster, position by position, heading into the offseason. Today: Offensive line It was just two [...]

Byline: Washington Post staff Players of the Year | Football (defense) | Volleyball | Field hockey | Boys' soccer | Girls' soccer | Boys' cross-country | Girls' cross-country | Golf [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier The Washington Commanders traded for star cornerback Marshon Lattimore to play more aggressively on defense. For most of the season, against better offenses, defensive coordinator Joe Whitt [...]

Byline: Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY After two years as the offensive coordinator at the University of Mary, a Division II program in Bismarck, North Dakota, the chance to take the [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Oct. 7For as critical as I was of the Pittsburgh Steelers' defensive performance against the Dallas Cowboys during Sunday night's 20-17 loss, Mark Madden of TribLive and [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Aug. 22After both of the Pittsburgh Steelers' preseason losses so far in 2024, head coach Mike Tomlin has appropriately bemoaned his offense's inability to convert on possession [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Aug. 20For anyone wondering if Pat Narduzzi is taking proper care of himself during training camp, please note that he slept well Sunday night after Pitt's second [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Aug. 20A lot of Pittsburgh Steelers fans are swaddling themselves in intellectual inconsistency right now. The Steelers' offense has looked terrible during the first two preseason games. [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Jul. 20Here's a look at the Steelers roster on the offensive side of the ball entering training camp. Players report to Saint Vincent on Wednesday. Quarterbacks 3 [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Apr. 11Pitt quarterback Nate Yarnell has been called 'a gunslinger ... a little bit of a gambler' by no less an authority than coach Pat Narduzzi. Likewise, [...]

Byline: Joe Rutter Jan. 19For only the second time since 1999, the Pittsburgh Steelers will go outside the organization to find their offensive coordinator. Coach Mike Tomlin said Thursday that [...]

Byline: Washington Post staff Players of the Year | Football (defense) | Boys' soccer | Girls' soccer | Golf | Field hockey | Boys' cross-country | Girls' cross-country | Volleyball [...]

Byline: Jason La Canfora The declining quality of offensive play continues to be a major storyline of this NFL season. No team has sufficient offensive linemen, scoring is down (if [...]

Byline: Jarrett Bell, Columnist, USA TODAY KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The best throw of the night from Patrick Mahomes - especially when considering the circumstances - cut through the wet, [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore In the final days of his playing career, Chuck Smith decided he would make his football life outside the NFL. During the 2000 season, he was on [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Jun. 15One way to make the Pittsburgh Steelers red zone scoring issues less of a concern this season would be to score more often from a greater [...]

Byline: Joe Rutter Jun. 3If anyone knows or thought he knew the ins and outs of Matt Canada's offense, it's Mason Rudolph. Rudolph, the No. 3 quarterback on the Pittsburgh [...]

Byline: Blake Toppmeyer, SEC Columnist, USA TODAY NETWORK If this Alabama football team is supposed to be more of the vintage variety, which vintage are we talking? During Saturday's spring [...]

Byline: Jake Kocorowski Apr. 18Perhaps it wasn't a coincidence that Phil Longo's unit ran sprints at the end of practice. The University of Wisconsin football offense provided some fireworks via [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer If you're obsessed with offense, you will look at the last four NFL teams standing, see four head coaches with offensive backgrounds and deduce once again that [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Jan. 2Now that the Pittsburgh Steelers have kept their playoff hopes alive heading into the final week of the season, maybe it's time to change our eye [...]

Byline: Washington Post Staff All-Met Players of the Year | Football (defense) | Boys' soccer | Girls' soccer | Golf | Field hockey | Boys' cross-country | Girls' cross-country | [...]

The ground game took a back seat as passing innovations grabbed hold of N.F.L. teams in the past decade. Running backs are seeing a resurgence this season. N.F.L. offenses used [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Oct. 221. Tough schedule The Pittsburgh Steelers' offense ranks fourth-worst in the NFL in yards gained and third-worst in points scored. But is part of that poor [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Oct. 21On Christmas Eve, 'Raider Nation' will have to suffer as Steelers fans at Acrisure Stadium revel in the memory of the Immaculate Reception. In honor of [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Sep. 30Some say the players are blaming the offensive coordinator. Some interpret comments from the wide receivers that they blame the quarterback. Seemingly everyone has, at one [...]

Byline: Gene Wang BLACKSBURG, Va. - After Virginia Tech's least productive offensive showing of the season last week in a loss riddled with errors of the mind and body, Hokies [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore John Harbaugh is in his 15th season coaching the Baltimore Ravens, and he has developed a reputation as one of the league's best tacticians in pivotal moments. [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Sep. 26Chase Claypool can't nail down a common theme for the struggles of the Pittsburgh Steelers offense on third downs. 'Sometimes we don't make the plays. Sometimes [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Sep. 23CLEVELAND It might not be a strength, but the offensive line hasn't proven to be a weakness for the Pittsburgh Steelers so far this season, either. [...]

Byline: Chris Easterling, Akron Beacon Journal | USA TODAY Network BEREA, Ohio - The last time the Cleveland Browns saw the Pittsburgh Steelers, T.J. Watt essentially turned it into his [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Sep. 20I'm going to have to disagree with Pittsburgh Steelers center Mason Cole. Not with the meaning of what he said. Oh, he's 100% accurate there. I'm [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Sep. 20Big Ben wants bigger plays from the Pittsburgh Steelers offense. In the latest edition of his 'Footbahlin'' podcast, the team's former quarterback Ben Roethlisberger had a [...]

Byline: Jason La Canfora This year's crop of rookie NFL coaches share some overriding similarities - which might be correlated to their unusual performance in Week 1, when the group [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Aug. 22There have been plenty of positives to discuss regarding the Pittsburgh Steelers' victories in each of their first two preseason games. All three quarterbacks Mitch Trubisky, [...]

Byline: Chris Harlan Aug. 20High school football teams deploy a variety of offensive schemes, from no-huddle spreads to the wing-T. What do they all have in common? Five offensive linemen. [...]

Byline: Paul Schofield Aug. 18What do you do with the best athlete on your football team? If you're Greensburg Salem coach Dave Keefer you make him your quarterback. That's what [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Jul. 30For a player who as a rookie led the NFL in touches, played almost 1,000 offensive snaps and was the designated ball-carrier or target for almost [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Mar. 5The Pittsburgh Steelers' offense will feature more under-center, play-action and downfield passing in Year 2 under coordinator Matt Canada, quarterback Mason Rudolph said on a national [...]

The run-pass option and screen-based offenses currently in favor in the N.F.L. rely on receivers who can throw blocks for their teammates. N.F.L. wide receivers' job descriptions are straightforward: Most [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore and Neil Greenberg The final minutes of the fourth quarter provide a launchpad for NFL lore. It is when Joe Montana squats in the San Francisco 49ers [...]

Byline: Sam Fortier and Emely Hernandez The Washington Football Team put the pads on for the first time Tuesday morning, and in spurts, the intensity notched up. Here's what you [...]

Byline: Joe Rutter Jul. 17For a team that won its first 11 games and returned to the top of the AFC North after a two-year absence, the Pittsburgh Steelers will [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Jun. 26Less than three years ago, the Pittsburgh Steelers had an offensive line that was the envy of much of the NFL. In 2018, coming off a [...]

Byline: Joe Rutter Jan. 29Editor's note: This is Part 6 of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary cap information courtesy [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Jan. 20Three days after watching his team total 52 rushing yards in ending a season in which it finished 32nd out of 32 NFL teams in that [...]

Byline: Des Bieler Ravens Coach John Harbaugh had a message Wednesday for critics of Baltimore's offense: the run-heavy attack built around Lamar Jackson is here to stay, and the team [...]

Byline: Chris Adamski Jan. 18Ben Roethlisberger helplessly waving his arm at the sailing ball and chasing it down 20 yards into his own end zone serves as the defining moment [...]

Byline: Tim Benz Dec. 11James Washington is one of the few Steelers wide receivers worthy of praise in recent games. The third-year Oklahoma State product caught a clutch pass from [...]