Steelers Afternoon Drive

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 11th episode of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with Arif Hasan of Wide Left to discuss the mess that is the Minnesota Vikings, who will be drafting without a general manage...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss what Mike McCarthy had to say when speaking to the media on Tuesday, if we believe Mike Tomlin will be good in his new role on NBC, what makes QB evaluation and development so difficult, the idea of keeping 12 draft picks, why tanking doesn't work and much more. Let's go for another Steelers Afte...

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 10th episode of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with Brian Foster of the Bleachers to Speakers Podcast to discuss the Detroit Lions and the No. 16 overall pick, where one of...

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 ninth episode of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with James Yarcho of Locked On Bucs to discuss the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the No. 15 overall pick, who could be one of sev...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss what Omar Khan and Mike McCarthy had to say during their pre-draft press conference. What are they thinking as the team is set to host the 2026 NFL Draft, holding 12 selections as we sit here right now? What did they have to say in regard to Aaron Rodgers and the report of a "setback" being suffe...

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 eighth episode of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with Giana Han of the Baltimore Banner to discuss the Ravens and the No. 14 overall pick, who could be lined up to snipe on...

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 seventh episode of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with Jake Ellenbogen of the Downtown Ramspodcast to discuss the Los Angeles Rams and the No. 13 overall pick, who could be...

Welcome to the Steelers Afternoon Drive, our new daily podcast featuring all the latest Steelers news and analysis. Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Alan has a special Sunday episode as he continues previewing the 2026 NFL Draft, this time talking to Armanda Salguero of Outkick.com about the Miami Dolphins and Joe Hoyt of the Dallas News o...

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 sixth episode of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with Brandon Herriott of the Runnin' Through the Jungle Podcast to discuss the No. 10 overall pick.  NOTE: This episode was...

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 fifth episode of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal, to discuss the No. 6 overall pick, where the the NFL's most unpredictable...

Welcome to the Steelers Afternoon Drive, our new daily podcast featuring all the latest Steelers news and analysis. Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Alan has a special Saturday episode as he continues previewing the 2026 NFL Draft, this time talking to JP Finlay of NBC4 and 106.7 The Fan about the Washington Commanders, Matthew Paras of th...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss the first impressions after hearing Brian Angelichio, Patrick Graham and Danny Crossman speak for the first time since becoming the coordinators of the team. What do we make of what they want the identity to be, the type of players they are looking for and the stamp they are trying to put on the...

Today, it's the fourth episode of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with Patricia Traina of Giants on SI and Locked on Giants, to discuss the No. 5 overall pick, where the New York Giants will make their first pick of the John Harbaugh era, which makes it tough to tell what kind of player they may be targeting, very similarly to our recent discussions about the Steelers. Alan and Patricia break...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Chris Carter of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Locked on Steelers joins us to talk about the Steelers draft process. Does not bringing in KC Concepcion, Jordan Tyson & Omar Cooper Jr. for 30 visits mean they're off the board? What do we make of how the front office and coaching staff delegated the pre-draf...

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 third episode of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with Justin Melo of NFL Draft on SI and Titan Sized, to discuss the No. 4 overall pick, where the Tennessee Titans may very...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss the team bringing in Drew Allar & Treydan Stukes to wrap up their pre-draft visits. What do we make of these, and have they painted us a clearer picture into what the draft plans may be? We then dive more into the positional value discussion, the idea of trading completely out of round one and ho...

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 second episode of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with Donnie Druin of Cardinals on SI, to discuss the No. 3 overall pick, where Arizona Cardinals general manager Monti Osse...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss the team bringing in Vega Ioane, Will Kacmarek and Beau Stephens in for pre-draft visits on Tuesday. Is Ioane now firmly in play whether he fall or even in a trade up scenario? We then discuss ethics in reporting and how big of a win it is for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to have been purchased. F...

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 start of our 2026 NFL Draft preview, talking with Steve F of Tape, Talk & Turbines, a New York Jets podcast, to discuss the No. 2 overall picks, which is one of the big inflecti...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss the uniqueness of this draft with the top of the class including a lot of players who play non-premium positions. Could this be something that shifts though if the league continues to trend in the direction that it is with the run game emergence? What do we make of the team bringing in Germie Ber...

Brendan Howe and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss the chances of the team's first-round pick being in Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft, the concept of a TJ Watt trade and the potential fallout and what we think the grace period will be for Mike McCarthy. Let's go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all this! Learn more about your ad choi...

Derrick Bell and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss the WR tiers as Derrick sees them within this draft class and discuss his big board for the position. What separates the guys at the top and who came out of it with a first round grade? Makai Lemon came in for a pre-draft visit, where does he fall in Derrick's WR hierarchy? What about Omar Cooper,...

Welcome to the Steelers Afternoon Drive, our new daily podcast featuring all the latest Steelers news and analysis. Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, Nick Farabaugh is in to replace Smitty, as Nick and Alan talk about the changes to the way the team is preparing for the 2026 NFL Draft, its first under Mike McCarthy. Let's go for another Ste...

Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers. On today's episode, we discuss the Steelers having the worst odds amongst themselves, the Pirates and the Penguins to win the league's championship. What do we make of them seemingly being the third fiddle in the hierarchy in that way? We then discuss how much of that is attached to just them not having a franchise QB. We also...

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 start of phase one of the team's offseason training program at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on the South Side, what happens during each phase of the program, and what it means tha...