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DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK's Daily Shot of Steelers: A whole new No. 1 priority

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK Pittsburgh Sports

Sports, Football, Nhl, Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baseball, Pirates, Matt Williamson, Mlb, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Steelers, Steelers, Penguins, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh, Nfl, Hockey

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A whole new No. 1 priority (and it's not wide receiver). Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports

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0:00.0

I say this a lot, but as situations change, stances should change.

0:13.8

Circumstances that apply then don't necessarily apply now.

0:19.1

Within this specific framework, meaning your favorite football team, what was the number

0:24.3

one priority might no longer be a priority at all? Good morning to you. Good Monday morning. I'm

0:31.6

Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Steelers. It comes your way bright

0:37.2

and early every weekday. If you're

0:38.5

into hockey and or baseball, I also cover two other teams in town, Penguins and the Pirates,

0:44.3

and I offer daily shots of those as well. The Steelers are off. Today they'll resume

0:51.0

three days of additional training camp workout out at St. Vincent College,

0:56.3

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

0:58.0

I'll be out there covering those.

1:00.2

Off Friday, flying down to Jacksonville for the preseason opener Saturday evening.

1:06.8

I'll, of course, be there for that as well.

1:08.8

And the closer all of this gets to being real, the clearer a lot of the internal picture becomes.

1:19.4

So where several months ago, the number one priority by only about a billion miles was quarterback.

1:31.6

That would appear to have been resolved,

1:38.1

particularly since Aaron Rogers has been encouraging in his presence both on and off the field.

1:44.3

To date, and of course, Mason Rudolph and Will Howard were added as well. Then as the summer moved along, once all of those quarterbacks and of course D.K. Metcalf were already in the fold.

1:50.7

The number one priority became some kind of combination of wide receiver two and slot corner one,

2:00.5

which as we all know is when Minka Fitzpatrick was traded back to

2:04.6

Miami for John Hsu Smith to bring his 88 catches from last season here, and Jalen Ramsey

2:12.5

to not just play slot corner, but to play all kinds of corner and turn their entire secondary

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