Good news Joey Porter and Alex Highsmith could be back as soon as Sunday.

Not so good news. Calvin Austin's going to be out a while.

Good morning to you. Good. Tuesday morning. I'm Dan Kavachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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And on this NHL opening day, I'm here in New York, to cover Penguins

versus Rangers at Madison Square Garden, while the football team back home tries to figure out

how to make an offense work with only one wide receiver. Not to be rude here, but let's call it what it is.

Let's call it what it's been throughout the summer.

It's been a D.K. Metcalfe offense as it relates to wide receivers.

It's been that on the fields of La Trobe.

It's been that in practices, and you'd better believe it's been that in games.

And that's okay.

That's fine as long as he's okay.

And as long as he's fine.

With Austin going down with a shoulder injury in Ireland, and then with Austin acknowledging

yesterday after practice on the south side that it's not looking like it's going to

mend itself anytime soon. The same question that everybody on the outside has been asking all along,

you know, it just keeps getting asked, only now with more punctuation. That is, of course, when is Omar Khan going

to get himself a WR2? Now the question can be asked with the Steelers already having shown that they

have a WR2. And that really is how it's worked if you think about it because the doubts were cast on Austin,

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