August 14
Working together: The Steelers will host a closed joint practice today with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Acrisure Stadium ahead of the preseason game between the two teams on Saturday night.
Joint practices have become more common as of late, especially when it's two teams that don't face each other in the regular season.
It's the second consecutive year the team will practice against a preseason opponent, and quarterback Aaron Rodgers said it can be valuable.
"Most of the joint practices, I would say you're not going to play that team in the regular season, so, they're less worried about showing things that they want to work on," said Rodgers. "Even though there usually are cameras there and it's filmed, they're less skittish about running the stuff they've been running all