Feb. 27, 2026, 9:58 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
It appears the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> are finally listening to some of the grievances recently aired out by the 2026 NFLPA report card<\/a>, as a new report indicates important changes are coming to Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gerry Dulac, Steelers<\/a> President Art Rooney revealed that a new playing surface is on its way to Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n “Steelers president Art Rooney said Thursday that Acrisure Stadium will be resurfaced for the 2026 season with Tahoma 31 Bermuda, a mixture of Bermuda and bluegrass grown on plastic sheets that is cold-tolerant and used on many golf courses, sporting fields and even the lawn of the U.S. Capitol,” Dulac wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n The quality of the playing surface at Acrisure Stadium reached an all-time low in 2025, resulting in injuries, such as Miles Killebrew tearing his ACL in Week 6, and multiple player complaints to the NFL Players Association.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, ESPN released a look at the 2026 NFLPA survey results, and the Steelers were ranked the worst team in the league<\/a>, which included an F- grade for their playing field at Acrisure.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n It’s clear that the Steelers took the poor grades \u2014 and the NFL’s 2028 playing surface mandate \u2014 to heart as the players prepare for a brand new field.<\/p>\n For up-to-date\u00a0Steelers\u00a0coverage, including any offseason moves, follow us on X\u00a0@TheSteelersWire<\/a>\u00a0and give our\u00a0Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0a like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 27, 2026, 9:58 p.m. ET It appears the Pittsburgh Steelers are finally listening to some of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[95878,7,6,520,57,2360,96718,96719,426,95882,95892,95893,96085,96082,101480,95888,95895,95897,96720,96071,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-781755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-sstssportsnflsteelers","15":"tag-sstsnsteelers","16":"tag-steelers","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagespn-inc","19":"tag-tagfacebook","20":"tag-taglive-sporting-events","21":"tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","22":"tag-tagmiles-killebrew","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-hub","25":"tag-tagoverall-negative","26":"tag-tagpittsburgh-steelers","27":"tag-tagsmg-timely","28":"tag-tagsports-news","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116147304928600805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}