This is NOT good for the Steelers...

Steelers are back at practice today and we have some important updates regarding a few players that came back to the field some new players on that injury report that are a little concerning and we have some quotes on a new linebacker that has joined the linebacking corps a linebacker that many Steelers fans can remember and then a possible opportunity for a wide receiver and much more hopefully you guys are having a great Thursday recordings on a Wednesday will be uploaded on a Thursday we got some news to get into injury reports from yesterday's practice we'll get into Thursday's practice and Wednesday's practice and later date you know and some quotes from some players and different stuff before we get into all that want to remind you guys of course as always to subscribe to the channel from all the videos from Nick and I we really both appreciate it keeps you up to date on all things Steelers Digest subscribe hit the notification bell and then why not throw us a follow on Facebook as well again keep you guys up to all keep you guys updated on everything that you guys need to know. All right, let's hop into this injury report. It's an interesting one. It definitely is an interesting one, and it's a long one. Tons of players. Let's start with the did not practice. No Jalen Ramsey, no Roman Wilson. That's not a surprise. No Ben Skoranek. That also wasn't really a surprise. And then I'll go to the bottom here. No Cam Hayward. Not a surprise. They always do rest days. That's what it feels like, especially for Cam and then with TJ as well, who was limited, but he still was resting. I think the big one here, no Keanu Benton. This is not something I was expecting. I don't think he got hurt in the Indianapolis game, but he didn't practice today. The reason, an ankle injury. Again, Thursday and Friday practice will give us just more information on the severity or give us an idea of what the severity would be. But right now, no Keanu Benton, at least at practice, which that's not a good sign and then limited in practice we got Rico Dowdle Deshaun Elliott Jamel Dean and TJ Watt like I mentioned TJ Watt it was for rest so that's not a surprise uh Jamel Dean back at practice I think that's big that's that feels like that's really big um Deshaun Elliott limited in practice again like I've talked about seems like he's ramping up to return somewhat soon to the Steelers team which is great news to hear and then same with Rico Dowdle it feels like we're about to get Rico Dowdle back for Tampa Bay so I think this is just kind of that first step in this week to you know really start getting him ramped up I got a tweet here kind of going these are the major ones that I've already really talked about again big deal Jamel Dean's back and then with DeShawn Elliott and Rico Dowdle continuing you know to work back to being healthy and being back on the team I think those are both really big deals but man Keanu Benton was not surprised by this. Keanu has been okay. I'm curious what you guys think about Keanu. He's been, I think by his nature with what he does as a defensive lineman, which is not so much to pass rush. It's more to run stop. be that immovable force in the middle of the defensive line. Let's just say hypothetically he doesn't play against Tampa Bay. Hypothetically. How big of a loss is this because Gabe Rubio just played against Indianapolis. He played great. You already have Y.A. Black, who's been playing really well. Keanu Benton, who they just paid a lot of money. You don't want to see him getting hurt like this. And again, maybe tomorrow comes, well, actually, again, this will be coming out on Thursday. Maybe, you know, the rest of today or Friday comes around and Keanu's okay. And then it's just, this is a non-issue, but not practicing at all on an ankle injury it would be one thing if he was limited not practicing that's not a fantastic sign obviously hoping right for Keanu to you know be on the field against Tampa Bay you know obviously but yeah pretty interesting a lot again like I mentioned laundry list of names I count nine on nine total with five of those not practicing at all so we will again we'll monitor this stuff see how it progresses as we inch closer and closer to the game against the Buccaneers Before we get into some quotes, we have some players, a returning player that I think a lot of fans are really getting riled up about, rightfully so. I want to talk about our sponsor for today, and that, of course, is Calshi. On Calshi, you're trading against other users, not against the house, like other sportsbooks that you guys might think of. 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He almost felt like he was definitely going to make it, especially since they brought him back. They let him go. no team picked him up and now here we are uh you know going into week six now and here comes Atlanta Roberts this is from Nick Fairball Atlanta Roberts says while he was away from the steelers he had a personal issue that would have caused him to miss time with the team anyways but now it's cleared up this is big information maybe this is why the steelers felt the need to part ways with him temporarily obviously it all worked out because now they're back together but he said he had interest from multiple teams but chose to return to the Steelers again also love to hear that i would i'm curious to see what those other teams were you know some possible linebacker linebacker needy teams that might have wanted Robert's services but again he's back with the with the Steelers i'd love to see it he was comfortable with the players and the coaching staff around him also not that much of a surprise i saw something as well he has been practicing so hard between being cut and coming back to the Steelers uh practicing so hard that he wasn't sore after practice today that he wasn't really winded after practice today this is a player that is seemingly ready to go i'll be very interested interested to see how much he's on the field week six i would expect him especially if he keeps ramping up and he's playing well i expect him to be borderline a starting linebacker for the team i know it's kind of like a rotation right now with guys like Queen Wilson uh Holcomb names like that but just love to he brings such a different dynamic than all the other linebackers on the team right now. Peyton Wilson is a pass-defending genius. I'll say that. He's great because he's so athletic, but when it comes to stopping the run, not that great. It's kind of the same with Patrick Queen. He's kind of his both. He's not really a master in one area over the other. Landon Roberts is a run stopper, run stuffer, gap pusher, gap runner. However you want to frame him, he's awesome at it. So just to have that dynamic is dynamic back on the team like obviously with his prior stint with the Steelers he was he was great man I wasn't perfect obviously but the moments that he had were really good I always remember I know they lost this game I remember that goal line play against the Cowboys two years ago I think it was two years ago where he nearly made one of the craziest fumbles of all time and obviously Steelers weren't able to get it they lost that game but like that's just the type of stuff you get from Roberts. As you can tell, I'm hyped up that he's back. So hopefully we'll see him week six, but move on from that. I want to talk about Brandon Smith. We've been mentioning other receivers that the Steelers could possibly go after, but no one's really talking about Brandon Smith. Steelers wide receiver Brandon Smith expected to get more chances this week with the injuries in the wide receiver room. So this has been a long time coming for him from UDFA to the UFL to being cut again and now to the Steelers practice squad and now seemingly going to suit up and get some PT on um sunday i mean i don't know what you guys feel about this i mean if they're not going to go get one i could go get a receiver i know nick and i have talked about plethora of receivers the you know the steelers could hypothetically go get but i almost think realistically they're going to rock with brandon smith and see what he got and see what he has and who's to say he doesn't show you know he doesn't add some element to the offense i'm not saying he's going to, he's not, I'm not saying he's going to catch five balls for 60 yards and maybe a touchdown, but maybe he's good on special teams. Maybe he can, you know, be on the field as a receiver and maybe he's not catching the ball, but maybe he's running good routes and opposing defenses have to think about him. I think that is maybe not enough, but I think for what you could possibly get out of Brandon Smith and we're going to see what we get out of him could be worse, right and this was a quote uh from Brandon Smith as well he's been waiting for his shot so he's this is a hungry player that is gonna seemingly be we'll see if he's ready for the moment but I think Brandon himself he feels like he's ready so we'll see, we will see, and then gotta quickly jump on this, I think Nick mentioned this in a video yesterday but Steelers and I had an extensive video on Jalen Warren giving him more love than I'm sure he could handle yesterday um but yeah Steelers running back Jalen Warren as one AFC offensive player of the week, don't you just love to see that, love to see not defensive player of the week, offensive player of the week, the Steelers had an offensive player of the week, usually it's defense, usually it's TJ or Cam or when we had Minkah maybe it was Minkah or any of those players but Jalen Warren has been a godsend to this team so hopefully he can keep on rolling with that but that's going to do it for everything that I have today I'll be back really soon probably diving more into everything just that's coming out of practice as we ramp up and move closer towards this week six matchup against Tampa Bay. Feeling pretty good about the team. Honestly, I feel pretty dang good about it. Better than I felt a few weeks ago. Hopefully, you guys have a great rest of your day. I'll see you guys very, very soon.