{"id":307580,"date":"2025-11-26T06:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/307580\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:44:08","slug":"nfl-suspends-steelers-dt-daniel-ekuale-for-performance-enhancing-substances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/307580\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL suspends Steelers DT Daniel Ekuale for performance-enhancing substances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL suspended Steelers defensive tackle Daniel Ekuale for violating the NFL\u2019s performance-enhancing substances policy, the league announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ekuale is suspended without pay for the next five games.<\/p>\n<p>He is on injured reserve after tearing his ACL in the Steelers\u2019 game against the Packers on Oct. 26. Ekuale totaled six tackles, a quarterback hit and a pass defensed in seven appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Ekuale, 31, signed a one-year contract with the Steelers in free agency after four seasons with the Patriots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL suspended Steelers defensive tackle Daniel Ekuale for violating the NFL\u2019s performance-enhancing substances policy, the league announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-307580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}