Overview
- League reporters say Dean Lowry paused a planned return to Pittsburgh to keep working into football shape.
- He is fully medically cleared from last season’s knee injury, and Ian Rapoport says he did not take a team physical.
- The reunion had been reported as a one-year agreement to add defensive-line depth, with no official team announcement to date.
- Aaron Wilson and Rapoport attribute the delay to conditioning and describe the move as pending rather than finalized.
- He missed 2025 with a training-camp ACL tear after playing 12 games for the Steelers in 2024 and has 271 tackles and 16.5 sacks over nine NFL seasons.