{"id":874442,"date":"2026-08-31T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874442\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:58:10","slug":"steelers-eagles-vikings-among-nfl-teams-to-keep-4-qbs-on-53-man-roster-after-cutdown-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874442\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers, Eagles, Vikings Among NFL Teams to Keep 4 QBs on 53-Man Roster After Cutdown Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Four NFL teams made the decision to keep four quarterbacks on their 53-man rosters Sunday, a fairly rare occurrence in the modern NFL. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Those teams were as follows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Eagles are perhaps the biggest surprise, given that Hurts is both a short- and long-term guarantee to remain the starter. The backup battle between Dalton and McKee will seemingly continue into the regular season, while Payton is perhaps an option to be used on special teams given his inclusion on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">In Atlanta, short-term questions about the position perhaps led to keeping four quarterbacks, while both the Steelers and Vikings seemed to make decisions keeping in mind their longer-term prospects given uncertainty at the position beyond the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four NFL teams made the decision to keep four quarterbacks on their 53-man rosters Sunday, a fairly rare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-874442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}