The Steelers signed Jordan Berry last week in a move that gave them three punters on their present roster.
It would be hard for Berry and Richie Leone to get enough work to know if they are viable alternatives to Brad Wing without enough people on hand to snap the ball to them, though. The Steelers remedied that this weekend.
Pittsburgh claimed long snapper Brandon Hartson off of waivers from the Chiefs and added him to the club. He joins Greg Warren as long snappers on the team’s offseason roster.
If Hartson were to unseat Warren, it would be the first change at the position since Mike Tomlin became head coach. Warren joined the Steelers in 2005, two years before Tomlin replaced Bill Cowher, and has played in all but 11 regular season games since then. Warren, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, linebacker James Harrison (who once replaced an injured Warren as a snapper with bad results for the Steelers) and tight end Heath Miller are the only players currently on the Steelers who were present for the team’s three Super Bowl appearances from 2005-2010.
Hartson has gone to training camp with the Bears the last two years and signed a future contract with the Chiefs in January. He’s never played a regular season game.