{"id":139069,"date":"2026-03-15T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139069\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:48:08","slug":"former-steelers-starter-signs-with-san-francisco-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139069\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Steelers starter signs with San Francisco 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Pittsburgh Steelers punter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2032932425861341586?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Corliss Waitman<\/a> is signing with the San Francisco 49ers, per Tom Pelissero. Waitman had been the Steelers\u2019 punter over the last two seasons, joining the team early in the 2024 season after Cameron Johnston suffered a season-ending knee injury injury in Week 1 against the Atlanta Falcons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When Johnston returned from the injury in 2025, the two punters had a competition throughout training camp to see who would get the job, and Waitman won. The Steelers signed Johnston earlier in the week, though, which seemingly shut the door on Waitman returning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In two seasons with the Steelers, Waitman averaged 45.95 yards per punt and had an average net yards per punt of 41.8.<\/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":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers punter Corliss Waitman is signing with the San Francisco 49ers, per Tom Pelissero. Waitman had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,45129,4853],"class_list":["post-139069","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\/139069","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=139069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}