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The steelers had supposedly met as a team and chose to honor rose with an untied effort by placing the teen s name on the back of their helmets.

Steelers name. But days later pouncey said that he was never given the full story of rose s death and later found out that a shooting victim had identified the teen as having been the triggerman in a drive by shooting. The team was owned by art rooney and took its original name from the baseball team of the same name as was common practice for nfl teams at the time. The nfl is allowing players to put the names of victims of police shootings and racism on their helmets this season and every steelers player has chosen the same name to wear on their helmets all. The steelers as a team had made the decision before their monday contest against the new york giants to display the name rose on their helmets but villanueva a west point grad chose cache.

On their helmets for the entirety of the 2020 season the team announced monday. Pittsburgh steelers center maurkice pouncey wore the name of a fallen officer for sunday s week 2 game against the denver broncos days after drama over who the team was going to support. The pittsburgh steelers have chosen to wear the name of antwon rose jr. During the pittsburgh steelers monday night football game offensive lineman alejandro villanueva elected to cover the name of police shooting victim antwon rose jr.

On their helmets for the 2020 season. The steelers added a new name to the injury report. On the back of his helmet with the name a u s. Get the latest pittsburgh steelers news scores stats standings rumors and more from espn.

The black 17 year old was shot and killed by a white east pittsburgh police officer in 2018 after running from a car involved in a drive by shooting. Center maurkice pouncey became the second steelers player to break from the team s unified decision to place the name of police shooting victim antwon rose jr. The pittsburgh steelers organization made the decision to put the name of antwon rose an accused drive by shooter on their players helmets. That according to steelers safety minkah fitzpatrick who says putting rose s name on the helmets was not the players call.