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The Detroit Lions have a new general manager: Los Angeles Rams director of college scouting Brad Holmes. The Lions reached agreement on a five-year contract with Holmes after interviewing him for a second time Wednesday, a source told the Free Press on Thursday. The Lions announced the hiring later Thursday afternoon. "I am thrilled to welcome Brad Holmes to Detroit," Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp said in a statement. "Several weeks ago when we embarked on this process, it was critical that w...

The Pittsburgh Steelers left no doubt last spring. As quarterback Ben Roethlisberger healed from right elbow surgery, the organization he's helped lead for the better part of two decades dismissed the idea of finding his eventual heir following an 8-8 finish, adamant the franchise's Super Bowl window with Roethlisberger at the controls remained open.

Holmes is one of 12 men to interview for Detroit's general manager job, and the first to land a second interview.

The visiting Cleveland Browns scored 14 seconds into the game and Kareem Hunt ran for two touchdowns Sunday en route to a 48-37 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers

The visiting Cleveland Browns scored 14 seconds into the game and Kareem Hunt ran for two touchdowns Sunday en route to a 48-37 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers

An exciting weekend of NFL football with six wild-card games finished as a winning week for most sportsbooks, mostly due to the Cleveland Browns’ 48-37 upset win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night. Underdogs went 4-2 against the spread and overs were 4-2. The Steelers-Browns game was the most-bet game of the weekend at PointsBet, and 69% of the bets and 82% of the spread handle was on Pittsburgh. The Steelers had more than 80% of the money at several other sportsbooks as well, altho...

Photo by Rob Tringali/SportsChrome/Getty Images The NFL’s salary cap is going to take a hard turn this offseason, and cap spending teams like the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to get ripped apart because of it. With current projections of the salary cap sitting anywhere between 175 and 194 Million dollars in 2021, the Steelers could be in cap hell. There are ways for the Steelers to add some space by extending players, but even then the organization will need to let a large majority of their ...

Steelers Update 11:13 pm Covid as it has all year is very much at the forefront of the NFL as we head into super wild card weekend and its really an obstacle for the Steelers and the Browns The good news for Steelers fans is that its not the Steelers with any issues its the hated Browns. COVID-19 is ripping through the Cleveland organization and its truly unclear what personnel the Browns will have available we will get to that in a second. But good news for the Steelers they get...

NFL Playoff Picks This season, I’ll be providing my picks every week for you, our readers. Last year, I was Gridiron’s top NFL Pick’em guru on Tallysight, going 167-99-1 (63%). We’re hoping to have even more success this year! Each week, I’ll give you my picks for the game, and a short write-up centered around the key reason why I’m making the pick that I am. You can also click over to see all our Free NFL picks for the week with more than a dozen Gridiron Experts picking each gam...

Punxsutawney, PA / WPXZ 104.1 FM Jan 8, 2021 9:25 AM With the playoff opener against the Browns just three days away, Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster did not practice yesterday because of a knee injury.  He’s been dealing with a sore knee all season long but the team did not say whether yesterday’s absence was because of that injury or something new. Defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs was also sidelined, for illness.  The team did not indicate that it was for covid. Going full spee...