It wouldn’t have been surprising a couple of weeks ago to hear the Pittsburgh Steelers announce that they had signed a new kicker. After all, they literally brought some in to hold a legitimate tryout to compete with Chris Boswell, whom they ended up choosing to retain. Boswell missed his first field goal attempt after the trial, but made his next three, including to from just under 50 yards.
But the Steelers placed him on Injured Reserve yesterday with an undisclosed injury and signed one of the kickers that they brought in for that tryout, Matt McCrane.