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Things don’t sound too good for Steelers QB Byron Leftwich, who was expected from all accounts to be the starter for the opener with the suspension to Ben Roethlisberger.
Reports say that Leftwich will miss the season as he apparently tore the medial collateral ligament in his left knee after throwing a pass in the second [...]

While the Steelers wrapped up the final preseason game with a rather convincing 19-3 win over the Panthers, the bigger story remains the same as it has been from the moment they knew they would not have Ben Roethlisberger the first part of the 2010 season.
Who starts at QB for the weeks Ben is gone?
That [...]

Sunday night the Steelers fell in Denver for the first time in the preseason, dropping a rather lackluster game 34-17. Below are the good and the bad from a game that the Steelers and their fans would like to rather forget.
The Good
1. The Steelers franchise QB was the best of the bunch, as Ben [...]

QB Charlie Batch, the Steelers player rep to the NFLPA, believes the owners will lock the players out in March if there is no CBA extension. He said as much last summer, too.
“Nothing has changed. We’re still there,” Batch said. “The players continue to hear nothing different than what I’ve been relaying over the last [...]

We had the story about Mike Tomlin stating he’s gonna have his starting QB for suspended Ben Roethlisberger picked by July. Right now all signs point to Byron Leftwich getting the spot, and Pro Football Talk had a tidbit earlier today on it, and some other NFL ‘experts’ seem to be on the same [...]

We’re now into about phase 5 or 6 of free agency, as just about all of the big name players (Torry Holt and Marvin Harrison aside) are gone, and most teams are now squarely thinking about the April 25th draft with visits from players and what not. With that, here is a little rewind [...]

The Steelers are still looking at their backup QB slot, and today in the Post-Gazette it was brought up once again about a couple of player that were with the club – Byron Leftwich and Charlie Batch.
Batch didn’t play last season after getting hurt in the preseason and was place on IR. Leftwich was [...]

Winning in Baltimore has not come easy as of late, as the Black and Gold have dropped five in a row there. “Baltimore is definitely a tough place to play,” LaMarr Woodley said. “We haven’t won there in years.” Anyway you look at it, some of these losses have been tough:
2007 Baltimore 27 [...]

Now that the Steelers have placed quarterback Charlie Batch on Injured Reserve and ended his season, the coaching staff is said to be mulling another surprise in the lineup.  The club is said to be considering a plan that would designate Byron Leftwich as their third string “emergency” quarterback to open the season and designate [...]