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October 16, 2026 -

Season 17, Episode 36 of The Terrible Podcast is now in the can. In this Friday morning show, Alex Kozora and I discuss the Pittsburgh Steelers' Thursday injury report ahead of the team's Week 6 road game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We go over the team being without two wide receivers this week in Roman Wilson and Ben Skowronek and if that will result in RB/WR Eli Heidenreich being active this week.

Will rookie KR/WR Kaden Wetjen get any offensive snaps on Sunday against the Buccaneers? We discuss that question and go over what HC Mike McCarthy said about Wetjen on Thursday. We also discuss the likelihood that the Steelers will elevate two wide receivers from their practice squad on Saturday.

With the annual NFL trade deadline getting closer, Alex and I discuss whether we should expect the Steelers to be active in it as buyers. We discuss the two positions that the Steelers are most likely to trade for if they are buyers in the trade market.

With the Week 6 road game against the Buccaneers coming up on Sunday, Alex and I are joined by Greg Auman, who covers Tampa Bay for FOX Sports at foxsports.com. Greg provides his insight into the 2026 Buccaneers ahead of the game and answers several questions we have about Tampa Bay's offense, defense, and special teams. At the end of our interview, Greg gives a final score prediction for Sunday's game in Tampa.

If you aren't already doing so, please follow Greg on X at @gregauman and read his online work here as well.

Following our interview with Greg, Alex and I provide our own full preview of the Steelers' game against the Buccaneers.

With the rest of Week 6 now close, Alex and I pick the remaining games against the spread. We also provide our final score predictions for the Steelers-Buccaneers game.

This 119-minute episode also discusses several other minor topics not noted in the recap above, and we end the show by answering several listener emails.

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October 15, 2026 -

For Episode 2,051 on this Thursday afternoon, Chris Gates questions when return specialist Kaden Wetjen, who has yet to make a meaningful impact this season, is going to justify his spot on the roster.

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Oct. 15 – Ep. 118: For this episode of The Depot Dive, Ross McCorkle and Joe Clark recap the Steelers' 34-22 win over the Indianapolis Colts and the biggest storylines from the game including a heavy focus on Jaylen Warren and Germie Bernard.

Next, we discuss the impressive performance and contributions from the rookie class with seven of 10 draft picks playing meaningful snaps early in the season.

For the last topic, we preview the Steelers' upcoming game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

To wrap up the show, we briefly touch on some trade deadline rumors with less than a month to go.

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October 14, 2026 -

For Episode 2,050 on this Wednesday afternoon, Alex Kozora discusses the need for the Steelers to stack wins and stop the up-and-down nature of their season so far.

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October 14, 2026 -

Season 17, Episode 35 of The Terrible Podcast is now in the can. In this Wednesday morning show, Alex Kozora and I discuss the Pittsburgh Steelers signing veteran ILB Elandon Roberts to their practice squad this week. Will Roberts be used in Week 6? Will it be a little while before we see him in a game again? We discuss those two questions.

Can the Steelers start stacking a few wins in their next three games? Their schedule certainly seems like that could happen.

The Steelers have seemingly lost two wide receivers, Roman Wilson and Ben Skowronik, to injuries for the immediate future so we discuss the team not having them for the Week 6 game. We discuss what this might mean for the offense and how WR Brandon Smith having a bigger role out of the chute is likely to happen. We also discuss how the shortage at the wide receiver position might force HC Mike McCarthy to lean a little more into 12 and 13 personnel groupings and how that might not be a terrible thing if it happens.

McCarthy talked on Monday about the role RB Rico Dowdle might have once he returns from his toe injury. We discuss how we hope that Dowdle doesn’t eat too much into the playing time of RB Jaylen Warren.

Steelers DC Patrick Graham was on the sideline for the team's Week 5 game against the Indianapolis Colts and that move really seems to have been popular with the players. We discuss that and a few things that Graham had to say during his Monday press conference.

After finally getting through the all-22 tape from the Steelers' Week 5 home win against the Colts, Alex and I give our thoughts on what we observed from the offense, defense, and special teams units.

This 81-minute episode also discusses several other minor topics not noted in the recap above, and we end the show by answering several listener emails.

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