(File Photo: Source for Headline Photo and First Photo Below: FILE – In this Dec. 2, 2018, file photo, Pittsburgh Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey, right, and his brother, Los Angeles Chargers center Mike Pouncey pose after playing against each other in an NFL football game in Pittsburgh. The twin brothers announced their retirement from professional football on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Don Wright, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Four former Pittsburgh Steelers football players have recently advanced in the voting process for the Pro Football Hall of Fame located in Canton, Ohio. They are kicker Gary Anderson, linebacker James Harrison, center Maurkice Pouncey, and wide receiver Hines Ward. These four players are now in further consideration along with forty-eight others for election as members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026. 

(File Photo: Source for Second Photo Below: FILE – In this July 29, 2016, file photo, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison, left, talks with head coach Mike Tomlin during a practice at the NFL football team’s training camp in Latrobe, Pa. Former NFL linebacker James Harrison says Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin did not offer a bounty for an illegal hit on a member of the Cleveland Browns. Harrison told former teammate Willie Colon on a podcast that Tomlin handed him an envelope shortly after Harrison was fined in 2010 for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Browns wide receiver Mohamed Massqoui. Harrison declined to specify what was in the envelope, but posted on Instagram that Tomlin never offered a bounty on opposing players. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

(File Photo: Source for Third Photo Below, Courtesy of Getty Images, PITTSBURGH, PA – NOVEMBER 22: Gary Anderson #1 of the Pittsburgh Steelers kicks a field goal during a NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts on November 22, 1992 at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

(File Photo: Source for Fourth Photo Below: FILE – Hines Ward, at the time the New York Jets’ offensive assistant coach, walks on the field during the NFL football team’s training camp in Florham Park, N.J., July 25, 2019. Ward is getting his first opportunity to be a head coach with San Antonio in the new XFL. The league relaunches in February 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)