{"id":640346,"date":"2026-05-01T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:00:10","slug":"steelers-will-decline-lt-broderick-jones-fifth-year-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640346\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers will decline LT Broderick Jones&#8217; fifth-year option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers are declining the fifth-year option for left tackle Broderick Jones, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>The move is not unexpected, given it would have paid Jones a fully guaranteed $19.1 million for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is coming off a neck injury that required a spinal fusion, which leaves uncertainty over his availability for 2026. <\/p>\n<p>He has 38 career starts.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers selected Arizona State offensive tackle Max Iheanachor with the 21st overall pick, providing them insurance if Jones has to miss time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers are declining the fifth-year option for left tackle Broderick Jones, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-640346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640346","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=640346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}