Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro wide receiver Antonio Brown was ruled out for Sunday’s divisional playoff game at Denver because of a head injury. The four-time Pro Bowler and one of the league’s most electric players is out with a concussion sustained in the final minute of last week’s wild-card win over Cincinnati. Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been ruled questionable after suffering a shoulder injury on a sack from linebacker Vontaze Burfict.
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2015 leaders: Steelers: QB Ben Roethlisberger 319-469 for 3,938 yards, 21 TD, 16 INT; RB DeAngelo Williams 200-907, 11 TD; WR Antonio Brown 136-1,834, 10 TD. Brown finished with 16 catches for 189 yards and two touchdowns. Running back DeAngelo Williams will miss a second straight game because of an injured right foot.
“Things like that”, Anderson said, turning back to a few reporters asking how Manning has looked at practice this week as he embarks on what could be his farewell to professional football.
Christina Rivers has covered the Pittsburgh Steelers and National Football League professionally as a journalist and photographer for over a decade. “We don’t want him to be messed up”.
Brown’s absence is a debilitating blow for the Steelers offense.
Michael Johnson of the Cincinnati Bengals reacts to the defining penalty called against his team in the fourth quarter against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the AFC Wild Card Playoff game.
Haslett has been around long enough _ starting from when he was the 1979 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year _ to have seen it all.
Steelers corner Antwon Blake was not fined for creating helmet-to-helmet contact with Bengals tight end Tyler Eifert early in the game. Jones had previously said on the Dan Patrick Show that a hit by teammate Vontaze Burfict was not dirty and did not hit Brown in the head. “I wanted to see a variety of throws”.
Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier, who hit Bengals running back Giovani Bernard with the crown of his helmet, was not fined. “Not knowing him, it’s hard for me to say, but I know things get blown up”. He was targeted 193 times in 590 pass attempts by the Steelers this season.
Pittsburgh’s Antonio Brown being out is a huge factor.
And finally, Domata Peko and Wallace Gilberry of the Bengals were each fined $8,681 for unnecessary roughness while Steelers offensive lineman Ramon Foster was fined $17,363 for unnecessary roughness.
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Osweiler has been hampered by a knee injury he suffered in the regular season finale against San Diego two weeks ago. I do believe that the best teams make the playoffs and the best teams survive in the playoffs.
