A Steelers Depot each day section. A fast hit of some Pittsburgh Steelers-related tales that will not require an entire article, however are price mentioning and passing on to you guys.
Your Depot After Darkish for Aug. 23.
Like Father, Like Son
The apple doesn’t fall removed from the tree. James Harrison’s son, Harrison III, made performs for North Allegheny Excessive Faculty within the workforce’s 2025 debut Friday evening. A senior working again and linebacker, KDKA Radio captured this 4-yard loss nevertheless it was removed from the one play he made all through the evening.
North Allegheny wanted each a type of performs to slide previous Woodland Hills, 28-26.
Harrison III is considered one of two Steelers’ sons on the roster. He joins senior OL/DL Lincoln Hoke, son of former NT Chris Hoke. It’s not recognized if Harrison III has drawn any faculty curiosity and he’s not practically as huge as his dad. But when he retains making performs the remainder of the season, he may go from Friday Nights to Saturday afternoons.
Black’s Stomach
Yahya Black is embracing the stomach celly. Selecting up two sacks in Thursday’s preseason finale, Black celebrated the primary one in a memorable manner.
Talking to reporters Saturday, Black embraced the viral second.
“I obtained a stomach, so yeah, it really works…free the intestine,” Black informed reporters by way of the workforce’s YouTube channel.
It doesn’t matter what future celebrations Black has, hopefully there’s extra cause to indicate off.
FCS High Prospects
It’s by no means too early to have a look at the 2026 NFL Draft’s prime prospects. That record can be populated by Energy 5 names, however the FCS degree is price inspecting, too. Small college professional Josh Buchanan shared his record of prime small-school sleepers for subsequent April.
His No. 1 prospect is North Dakota State WR Bryce Lance. Youthful brother of NFL QB Trey Lance, Bryce caught 17 touchdowns final season for the Bison. Buchanan notes Lance turned down a number of FBS affords to stick with NDSU, a program seeking to grow to be back-to-back FCS Champs after profitable all of it final season.
One notable identify on his record is Youngstown State WR Max Tomczak. Son of former Steelers QB Mike Tomczak, he’s Buchanan’s No. 4 prospect with a borderline draftable grade. He was praised for his “toughness and polish.”
Many of the record consisted of talent gamers with a handful of offensive linemen rounding out the rating. The final FCS prospect Pittsburgh drafted was South Dakota State’s Chris Oladokun in 2022.
Historic Play-By-Play
Professional Soccer Reference dropped an thrilling nugget – no less than for nerds like us. The positioning now has full play-by-play knowledge courting again to 1978, providing extra historic info than ever earlier than.
As the positioning outlined, it gives new knowledge that wasn’t accessible earlier than. Wish to know what number of first downs Jerry Rice had in his profession? You bought it. His 1,091 are an NFL receiving report giving him considered one of dozens he holds. Need the play-by-play of the Steelers’ 34-5 AFC Title Recreation win over the Houston Oilers that 12 months? Test it out and bask within the glory of RB Earl Campbell being stopped on third and objective from the three, forcing Houston to accept a discipline objective.
It’s too unhealthy the positioning couldn’t work again to 1976 to have full play-by-play logs of the Steelers’ historic 1976 protection. Perhaps sometime.
