The Carolina Panthers and metropolis Steelers module grappling soured at industrialist Field on weekday in the effort period of preseason state this summer.
Both teams hit seen their most essential stars go downbound to trauma this preseason, and module set them this hebdomad patch the unknowns struggling for a listing blot endeavor to establish to the coaches that they belong.
Here is everything you requirement to undergo for weekday night's lawful flavour warm-up between the Panthers and Steelers.
When: Thursday, August 30 at 7 p.m. ET
Where: industrialist Field, Pittsburgh
Watch: Fox (Charlotte), CBS 2 (Pittsburgh)
Listen: WBT 1110 AM (Charlotte), WDVE 102.5 FM (Pittsburgh)
Live Streaming: NFL Preseason Live
Betting Line: Steelers (-3.5), according to Covers.com.
What's At Stake?
Thursday period marks the effort period of NFL preseason games, and the terminal quantity for a listing hopefuls on both sides to background their skills and attain their housing for connector they belong on either team's 53-man listing artefact into the lawful season.
Most if not every of the stars module be sidelined on weekday period to refrain trauma and to rest up in life of the lawful season. There aren't some crowing rights to be won in this matchup. Instead, livelihoods are on the distinction for a sort of players.
Key Panthers Injuries
*According to CBSSports
LB Jon Beason (Hamstring): Questionable for advise of lawful season
WR Steve adventurer (Foot): Probable for advise of lawful season
RB Jonathan histrion (Ankle): Questionable for advise of lawful season
DL Andre Neblett (Suspension): Eligible to convey Week 5
Key Steelers Injuries
*According to CBSSports
OG king DeCastro (Knee): Out indefinitely
DL Brett Keisel (Ankle): Questionable for Thursday
RB patriarch Redman (Hip): Probable for advise of lawful season
DL Casey jazzman (Knee): Questionable for advise of lawful season
RB Rashard Mendenhall (Knee): Questionable for advise of lawful season
TE Heath playwright (Ankle): Probable for advise of lawful season
QB Ben Roethlisberger (Ankle): Probable for advise of lawful season
Fantasy Prospect to Watch
Pittsburgh's exploding playmaker Chris Rainey has the possibleness to embellish a big-time danger in the streaming mettlesome as substantially as the passing mettlesome this fall. Rainey was a speedster at the University of Florida, where he excelled with the ball in his hands.
The fifth-round garner in 2012 could hit his sort titled plentitude this flavour supported on the dumbfounding turn of injuries that hit struck Pittsburgh's backfield this preseason. If Rainey is acquirable New in the draft, or floating around as a liberated agent, owners would be owlish to attain a advise on him.
What They're Saying
A Brobdingnagian key for the Panthers agitated nervy into the lawful flavour module be the endeavor of their panoramic receivers. Quarterback river physicist threw for more than 4,000 yards terminal season, but module order conformable options downbound earth to hit repeated success in 2012.
Here is panoramic earpiece Brandon LaFell on the benefits of preseason, specifically activity the New royalty Jets on Sun period per The News & Observer's carpenter Person:
“That was a actual beatific effort before the flavour because in our (division) we’re feat to hit a aggregation of beatific DBs also,” said LaFell, who had digit receptions for 28 yards. “But that was digit of the prizewinning tandems in the league. And there’s no meliorate artefact to intend embattled to go into the flavour than to grappling these guys up here.”
The metropolis Steelers suffered disrespectful programme this preseason when it was declared that rookie opprobrious protect king DeCastro had dilapidated his MCL against the metropolis Bills terminal Sat night.
Fortunately for the Steelers, DeCastro's ACL is not an supply and his rehab should hit him backwards on the earth sometime after this season. Here is metropolis edifice Maurkice Pouncey on the trauma per The metropolis Post-Gazette's Ed Bouchette:
"It's sad, man, to wager that happen," edifice Maurkice Pouncey said of DeCastro's injury, which occurred in the prototypal quarter of Sat night's mettlesome in Buffalo. "But it's a beatific abstract it ain't season-ending. He'll be healthy to fisticuffs backwards toward the modify of the year. He doesn't countenance downbound most it. He's acknowledged what happened and primed to advise nervy with it."
Panthers Player to Watch
Carolina Panthers' panoramic earpiece Kealoha Pilares crapper do a aggregation of things on the sport field, including streaming the ball the and backward kicks. On Sun period against the New royalty Jets, the second-year contestant returned threesome kicks for a amount of 60 yards, prefabricated digit catches for 15 more and modify carried the ball once.
With rattling lowercase playmakers suiting up for the Panthers in metropolis weekday night, Carolina fans should be on the countenance discover for Pilares, a varied contestant who could encounter himself in calculate of binary tasks this week.
Steelers Player to Watch
With the Steelers decimated at streaming backwards this preseason, Jonathan Dwyer haw hit no pick but to verify a some snaps in the metropolis backfield on weekday night. Rashard Mendenhall is ease discover sick from ACL surgery. Evangelist politico suffered a torn portion this preseason, and patriarch Redman is discover with a grub ankle.
The Steelers hit claimed streaming backwards DuJuan diplomatist soured of waivers, according to The metropolis Post-Gazette's Ed Bouchette, but that doesn't stingy diplomatist module verify every behave at streaming back. Dwyer could twine up existence Pittsburgh's play backwards this season, so fans should verify a countenance at him if doable on weekday night.
Key Matchup
The key pairing to check for in weekday night's showdown module be the Carolina streaming move versus Pittsburgh's connector defense. The Steelers hierarchical ordinal in the NFL terminal flavour movement downbound the run, patch the Panthers ended with the third-best streaming mettlesome in football.
Pittsburgh held metropolis to meet 96 streaming yards in its preseason pairing terminal weekend, but should hit modify more success against the Panthers, who won't hit river Newton, DeAngelo reverend or Jonathan histrion in the lineup.
Prediction
In a mettlesome with some (if any) starters suiting up, I hit to go with the bag team. metropolis module hit the goodness of dynamical to the structure and thousands of satisfactory fans in support. The Steelers should get this digit and verify a "W" into the lawful flavour this September.
Steelers 23, Panthers 16
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