Casey Hampton and Brett Keisel Courtside

Another injury note I forgot to pass along today, but according to Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Brett Keisel this morning on DVE, he will not need surgery on his injured groin that forced him out of the AFC Wildcard game early against the Denver Broncos. Keisel told DVE when asked about his injury, "I'm healing up good, I'm healing up good. As of right now I am...

How quickly things change. Gerry Dulac reports that Pittsburgh Steelers nose tackle Casey Hampton said today that he will have surgery on Friday to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Hampton injured the knee early in the Steelers AFC Wild Card game against the Denver Broncos and all of the early reports suggested that Hampton would not need surgery. Defensive...

  If there’s one player this offseason that the Steelers can ill afford to lose, my money is on Casey Hampton. It’s not that the Big Snack is a free agent, because he’s still under contract for another season yet.  It comes down the team just not having a suitable replacement at starter for him [...]

Casey Hampton tried to avoid going under the knife so that he could play next season.  That is not going to plan.  Hampton will be headed under the knife on Friday to repair his torn ACL.  The Surgery will be Hampton’s 3rd time having ACL Surgery.  The second time on this knee. The Steelers just became very thin at Nose Tackle.  If Hampton can not play the Steelers will...

Now that Casey Hampton is down with the ACL Injury and most likely will not be on the team next year because of it what should the Steelers do?  They have been rumored to be looking at Ziggy Hood at Nose Tackle.  They could draft someone in the first or second round like Dontari Poe.  There is another option though.  They could switch to a 4-3 defense. This would be a huge change...

Pittsburgh Steelers nose tackle Casey Hampton will undergo surgery on Friday to repair a torn ACL in his left knee.  He suffered the injury during their playoff loss to the Broncos. Hampton has undergone two other previous ACL surgeries and this is his second on his left knee. The 34 year-old Hampton has made it clear that he wants to play next season,  but it might sense for the...

While not totally unexpected and certainly on the horizon for a while now, the Pittsburgh Steelers officially took two punches to the nose on Thursday as it was reported the veteran nose tackle Casey Hampton would indeed require ACL surgery on the left knee he injured in the Wild Card game against the Denver Broncos and veteran backup nose tackle Chris Hoke made his retirement official...

On the same day the Steelers lost one nose tackle to retirement, it was learned they will lose another to major knee surgery. Nose tackle Casey Hampton said he will have surgery today to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, an injury that happened in the season-ending playoff loss in Denver.

  According to our friend, Chuck Finder at CBS Sports, he tweeted that Steelers Defensive End Brett Keisel will not require surgery for groin injury he suffered in the wildcard loss to Denver.  There was concern after the season is over that he may have needed surgery for what Coach Mike Tomlin called a “significant [...]

Pittsburgh Steelers nose tackle Casey Hampton will undergo surgery to repair a torn ACL in his left knee, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Hampton suffered the injury in the Steelers' 29-23 overtime loss to the Denver Broncos, the 34-year-old nose tackle has undergone two previous surgeries to repair a torn ACL and Friday's procedure will be the second on that knee. During...

Steelers nose tackle Casey Hampton was hoping to avoid ACL surgery because he knew how hard it would be to recover from at age 34. Unfortunately, Hampton has no choice. Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Hampton will indeed after go under the knife Friday for the injury. It was believed Hampton could avoid the…

Steelers nose tackle Casey Hampton said he will have surgery Friday to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, an injury he sustained in the season-ending playoff loss in Denver.

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Excuse my lack of Round up last week.  I know you missed it.  So, there was a lot happening this week, so lots to report.  A good way to end the work week: I love the below picture James Harrison posted to Facebook today.  And I don’t care what anyone says, Antonio Brown has THE BEST SMILE EVER!  I love it! Brett Keisel and Casey Hampton attended the Pitt basketball...

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Left tackle edged it out by only 15 votes over Guard and Cornerback, but for all intensive purposes, it seems the BB&G Faithful are concerned about all three positions for next season.  Even Nose Tackle is on the radar at 18% of the vote, and frankly, I think Nose...