Steelers Afternoon Drive

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Dylan Winters joins the show to discuss creating the graphic for Steelers Afternoon Drive, some of his favorite projects, dream projects, growing up a Steelers fan and his favorite memories doing so. Let's go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all this! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's trying to project the roster battles in the Steelers secondary. With the addition of Jalen Ramsey, the Steelers have seven cornerbacks who finished the 2024 season on an NFL roster,...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Jim Wexell joins to discuss what role Tim Rooney played in the organization and tells a Jack Lambert story. We then dive into his book set to release later this year that was written by the late Craig Wolfley with contributions from his family and Wex. What can we expect from the book and why did Wex get in...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's trying to rank the quarterbacks in the 2026 NFL Draft class. Which, of course, is a fool's errand. The NFL teams that will spend millions of dollars between now and next April attem...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Chris Halicke joins to discuss the column about Jalen Ramsey's time in Miami, suggesting the team wanted to move on from him as much if not more than the other way around. We also discuss if Darius Slay can offset some of that from a leadership perspective and discuss if the reporting about a knee issue is...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's the Steelers big trade with the Miami Dolphins last week and how general manager Omar Khan is counting on Mike Tomlin and his coaching staff to make the pieces fit. The Steelers got...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Derrick Bell joins to give us his thoughts on the Jalen Ramsey & Jonnu Smith trade and then we answer a bunch of non-football related questions as we prepare for a long 4th of July weekend! Let's go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all this! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss the team giving GM Omar Khan a new three-year contract extension, moving DeShon Elliott to FS, where the team is at in terms of QB proofing their offense and if Arthur Smith could find himself back in head coaching conversations if the Steelers offense takes the strides they can. Let's go for ano...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's the Steelers offseason, including Monday's big trade with the Miami Dolphins, and how much they're focused on trying to beat -- or be -- the Baltimore Ravens. The 2025 season fell a...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Christian Kuntz joins the podcast to discuss his perspective of the Minkah Fitzpatrick trade, Aaron Rodgers, growing up a fan of the team he now plays for, starting his own podcast and much more. Let's go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all this! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's how the trade to acquire tight end Jonnu Smith has continued an offseason-long trend of catering to the personality and scheme of offensive coordinator Arthur Smith -- putting the p...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Nick Farabaugh joins to discuss if there is any impact on the deal to acquire Jalen Ramsey & Jonnu Smith on TJ Watt's future. Are we still expecting a deal or is the door open for a trade given Omar's willingness to wheel and deal? Could this change the financial structure of the deal? Is Cory Trice Jr. a v...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's once again blockbuster trade between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins. There seems to be a lot of negative feelings about this trade from the Pittsburgh Steelers fanbase,...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss the massive trade that sent Minkah Fitzpatrick back to Miami in exchange for Jalen Ramsey and Jonnu Smith. The Steelers also sent a 2027 5th round pick and got back a 2025 7th round pick. Where did the team get better and where do they still have work to do to find solutions before the season beg...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's the blockbuster trade between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins. The Steelers sent All-Pro safety Minkah Fitzpatrick to the Dolphins in exchange for All-Pro cornerback Jale...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Derrick Bell joins to discuss the price of trading up for a QB, the timeline of when they should look to strike, if Chris Boswell will have an impact on the optics of Aaron Rodgers and much more. Let's go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all this! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's the Cincinnati Bengals new deal on a lease extension at Paycor Stadium. The Bengals and Hamilton County, Ohio have agreed to a $470 million deal to keep the Bengals in Cincinnati fo...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Mike DeFabo joins the show to discuss report about collusion in the NFL, if Roman Wilson is capable of stepping into a WR2 role, who will take on the short yardage role for the Steelers and Mike's path to covering the Steelers for the Athletic. Let's go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all t...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it’s a question about the cause of problem players like former Pittsburgh receiver George Pickens. Pickens was in the headlines again on Wednesday after bailing last-minute on a youth fo...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss Smitty's vacation and Twitter hiatus, Aaron Rodgers' comments on the Pat McAfee Show, Pat Freiermuth stepping into his own as a leader on this team and Diontae Johnson's comments about playing in cold weather. Let's go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all this! Learn more about yo...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's a question about a new NFL Draft trade trend that Omar Khan has jumped on. The Steelers' trade of George Pickens to the Dallas Cowboys contains both a third-round pick in 2026 comin...

Welcome to the Steelers Afternoon Drive, our new daily podcast featuring all the latest Steelers news and analysis. Noah Strackbein of Sports Illustrated and the All Steelers Podcast joins Alan Saunders to discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, the guys discussed Aaron Rodgers' appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, when he, among other things, announced that he only intends to pl...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's putting to bed the incessant rumors connecting the Steelers to Miami Dolphins cornerback Jalen Ramsey. Ramsey has been on the block for months without a deal coming to the forefront...

Chris Carter of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Locked On Steelers Podcast joins Alan Saunders to discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, the guys discussed the fate of the Steelers' offensive line rebuudling project, expectations for 2025, and if anything can be learned from the three weeks of offseason pracitces in the rear-view window, or if we have to wait until trainin...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's whether the team will be looking for a new stadium when their least expires after the 2030 season. Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro told reporters on Sunday that the state does no...