{"id":49381,"date":"2025-09-28T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49381\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T21:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:01:06","slug":"steelers-beat-vikings-in-dublin-after-pittsburghs-thompson-injured-in-robbery-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49381\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers beat Vikings in Dublin after Pittsburgh\u2019s Thompson injured in robbery | NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Kenneth Gainwell ran for 99 yards and two touchdowns and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/pittsburgh-steelers\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> held on to beat the Minnesota Vikings 24-21 on Sunday in Ireland\u2019s first regular-season NFL game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">DK Metcalf had five catches for 126 yards, including an 80-yard touchdown for the Steelers, who improved to 3-1 going into their bye week.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers\u2019 victory gave quarterback Aaron Rodgers his first international win in front of a decidedly pro-Steelers crowd of 74,512 at Croke Park. Rodgers was 18 for 22 for 200 yards and the touchdown to Metcalf. Carson Wentz, making his second consecutive start for the injured JJ McCarthy, was 30 for 46 for 350 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions for the Vikings (2-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">However, Pittsburgh\u2019s win was tempered by the news that their backup quarterback, Skylar Thompson, was \u201cjumped and robbed\u201d on Friday night in Dublin. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/nfl\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> Network reported the 28-year-old had sustained minor injuries during the robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe are aware of a situation involving Skylar Thompson on Friday night in Dublin,\u201d a Steelers spokesman said. \u201cWe will have no further comment at this time as we are working with NFL security to gather more information regarding the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The NFL Players Association said it was providing support for Thompson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe NFLPA is actively gathering more information and working to understand the full circumstances surrounding what took place,\u201d it said in a statement. \u201cAs always, our priority is the health and safety of our player members &#8211; especially as we continue to work on player protections and well-being while playing international games.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenneth Gainwell ran for 99 yards and two touchdowns and the Pittsburgh Steelers held on to beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-49381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}