This weekend marks our ninth anniversary of DK Pittsburgh Sports, and we'll celebrate here in this space by ... sharing our football coverage plan!
Hey, it's not like we'd take the time off, right?
Here it is, in bullet form:
• As I shared a couple months back, I'm taking the lead on the Steelers. That means I'll cover all 20 games, preseason and regular season, plus playoffs. I'll also invest more time into training camp and practices than in the past toward a couple of midweek columns, as well. I'm very much looking forward to this.
• Corey Crisan will be doing the heavy lifting as related to camp -- staying out in Latrobe, actually -- in addition to practices, press conferences and the majority of games. It'll be his first full season on an NFL beat after helping out last season, and I'm confident he's more than up to it.
• Chris Halicke will cover about half the games, flying from his home in Texas, in addition to creating each week's Kickoff preview with a new and tighter format aimed wholly at game prep and, behind the scenes, helping to manage our Steelers Feed.
• Alex Stumpf will offer in-depth looks at the people and processes within the Steelers' world, beginning in October once Major League Baseball's done.
• Matt Williamson's indispensable War Room scouting analysis of each game will be back for another year, arriving each Wednesday morning. Before that, Ramon Foster will have his written report card done shortly after each game. It's hard to top getting that type of content from a former NFL scout and a former 11-year NFL starting guard.
And maybe the most positive spinoff here is that Corey's still going to handle Pitt football, which is something he'll tell you himself he'd hoped to do. He'll be at all games, as with Cory Giger on Penn State, and he'll have 2-3 midweek features, too. One of the countless benefits of having the Steelers and Pitt headquartered in the same building.
