{"id":135308,"date":"2026-03-11T09:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135308\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:42:16","slug":"steelers-sign-former-buffalo-bills-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135308\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers sign former Buffalo Bills safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pittsburgh Steelers are signing former Buffalo Bills safety Darnell Savage, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2031569794579787908?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Tom Pelissero<\/a>. It is a one year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Savage began the 2025 season with the Jacksonville Jaguars and was released after two games. He was then signed by the Washington Commanders, appearing in eight games before being released in December. He was quickly picked up by the Bills, where he remained for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Savage was drafted No. 21 overall in the 2019 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. He has 10 interceptions in seven seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Steelers entered this week with just two safeties on the roster &#8211; DeShon Elliott and Sebastian Castro. They\u2019ve made other additions to their secondary, re-signing cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. and signing former Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Jamel Dean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let us know what you think in the comments. Be sure to bookmark Behind the Steel Curtain for all the latest news, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers are signing former Buffalo Bills safety Darnell Savage, per Tom Pelissero. It is a one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,45129,4853],"class_list":["post-135308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-free-agency","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}