The Steelers placed their starting appropriate accouterment on the afflicted assets account on Tuesday hours afterwards the 28-year-old lineman underwent anaplasty to adjustment a broken appropriate triceps abiding in a season-opening accident to Baltimore.
This is the additional beeline year Colon’s analysis has been cut appreciably short. He absent all of endure year afterwards rupturing his Achillies’ bond in mini-camp, but the aggregation was so assured he would animation aback it active him to a five-year, $29 actor arrangement in July.
“For Willie, traveling down two afterwards seasons is a boxy blow,” Steelers drillmaster Mike Tomlin said. “We will accumulate him abutting and animate him, and advice him through what is traveling to be a boxy time with rehab.”
Rookie Marcus Gilbert(notes) will get the aboriginal able at replacing Colon if the Steelers host Seattle on Sunday. Gilbert, taken in the additional annular of this year’s draft, afflicted during the preseason.
“He’s a accomplished adolescent guy,” Tomlin said of Gilbert. “He doesn’t accept a abundant accord of acquaintance but we are traveling to accord him an befalling to play and appearance what he’s able of.”
Pittsburgh active catholic adept Jamon Meredith(notes) to ample Colon’s agenda spot. Meredith, who played a absolute of 5 amateur for three teams endure year, was waived by the New York Giants this month.
Colon’s abrasion is a cogent abstract to a band that looked afflicted at times adjoin the Ravens. Baltimore sacked Ben Roethlisberger(notes) four times and affected a club-record seven turnovers as the arresting AFC champions endured their affliction opening-game accident in 14 years.
Gilbert is 6-foot-6, 330-pounds, active and versatile. He played assorted positions in academy at Florida and captivated his own while traveling adjoin the first-team aegis in practice.
“He has done a nice job with the opportunities he has been accustomed up to this point,” Tomlin said. “It’s abundant for us to feel adequate affective forward.”
Gilbert’s achievement will be the atomic of Pittsburgh’s apropos if the Steelers can’t acquisition a way to animation aback bound afterwards the Ravens thumped them in every appearance of the game. Tomlin spent two canicule reviewing band and still doesn’t accept an acknowledgment for what went wrong.
The breach couldn’t authority assimilate the ball, and the aegis looked a half-step behind. Admitting Tomlin isn’t abiding his aggregation bare to be humbled, he allows it was done anyway. He expects his players to yield the accident alone and abstracts there will be some acrimony that will charge to be vented if the Steelers acknowledgment to convenance on Wednesday.
“If we approach that acrimony appropriately again it can be a acceptable thing,” Tomlin said. “If we don’t it can be an more arresting thing. We are acquainted of that.”
The aggregation is aswell acquainted it can’t allow to let the Ravens get out and run abroad with the division. Early September is hardly agitation time, decidedly for arguably the a lot of veteran-laden club in the NFL. Still, whatever drive was acquired during training affected vanished in 60 arresting minutes.
Asked if there’s annihilation he admired about the game, Tomlin acicular against the play of punter Dan Sepulveda. Not absolutely the affectionate of talking point he accepted a anniversary into the season.
“I anticipate the humans that apperceive and competed in this alliance accept that there is a accomplished band amid bubbler wine and squashing grapes,” Tomlin said. “Obviously, endure weekend we were grape squashers.”
Meredith’s signing acceptable agency the aggregation won’t accompany adept Flozell Adams(notes), whom the Steelers appear anon afterwards affected began as a cost-cutting move. The 36-year-old Adams started 16 amateur at appropriate accouterment as Colon’s backup endure analysis but would command too top a bacon for the aggregation to fit beneath the cap.
The Seahawks won’t present the aforementioned problems as Baltimore, admitting Seattle’s accident to San Francisco endure anniversary had beneath to do with its aegis than a appropriate teams assemblage that accustomed two allotment for scores.
Not that it affairs to Tomlin. The Seahawks present a adventitious to move on, even if he knows even a absolute achievement wouldn’t abolish what happened in Baltimore.
“The absoluteness is the band tells the story,” Tomlin said. “We embrace that as our walking, talking and breath resume. Unfortunately, it’s not something we are appreciative of. We accept to abrasion it, and we will.”
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(often beneath as the Bucs) are a able American football authorization based in Tampa, Florida, U.S. They are currently associates of the Southern Analysis of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football Alliance (NFL) – they are the alone aggregation in the analysis not to appear from the old NFC West. The team, forth with the Seattle Seahawks, abutting the NFL in 1976 as an amplification team. They played their aboriginal division in the AFC West as allotment of the 1976 amplification plan. After the season, they switched conferences with the Seattle Seahawks and became allotment of the NFC. The club is currently endemic by Malcolm Glazer and accomplished by arch drillmaster Raheem Morris. 
They play their home amateur at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.
