{"id":16182,"date":"2025-10-27T02:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16182\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T02:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:39:09","slug":"isaac-seumalo-injured-against-packers-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16182\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Seumalo Injured Against Packers (Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE:\u00a0Seumalo briefly returned to the game to begin the second half, but has since been downgraded to out with his pectoral injury, per Steelers senior director of communications Burt Lauten.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: Seumalo has been downgraded to OUT for the rest of tonight&#8217;s game with his pec injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Burt Lauten (@SteelersPRBurt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteelersPRBurt\/status\/1982632929273815356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our original story is below.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Steelers OG Isaac Seumalo suffered an injury on the team\u2019s final first-half drive in its Week 8 game against the Green Bay Packers. He\u2019s questionable to return with a pectoral injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteelersPRBurt\/status\/1982624477516353763\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Steelers senior director of communications Burt Lauten<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Steelers<\/a> G Isaac Seumalo has a pec injury, and his return is questionable.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Burt Lauten (@SteelersPRBurt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteelersPRBurt\/status\/1982624477516353763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seumalo missed four games last season with a pectoral injury, and he began training camp this year on the non-football injury list but returned quickly. He\u2019s started every game for Pittsburgh this season, his third with the Steelers after joining them as a free agent ahead of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>If Seumalo can\u2019t return to the game, it could affect the Steelers\u2019 use of their jumbo package with Spencer Anderson as their extra offensive lineman, as Anderson would likely slot in at left guard to replace Seumalo. The Steelers could still operate with Calvin Anderson in that role, but with Andrus Peat inactive tonight, Spencer Anderson could be Seumalo\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers entered Sunday with questions about whether C Zach Frazier would play with a calf injury, but Frazier is active and playing tonight. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrianBatko\/status\/1982625303265689774\" rel=\"nofollow\">Per Brian Batko of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>, Ryan McCollum, who has been Pittsburgh\u2019s backup center, had a play sheet in hand and was talking to assistant offensive line coach Isaac Williams, a sign that McCollum may get the nod to replace Seumalo if he can\u2019t return after the half.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Right before the Brandon McManus miss Steelers backup center Ryan McCollum was chatting with OC Arthur Smith and assistant OL coach Isaac Williams with a play sheet in Smith&#8217;s hand. Perhaps McCollum will slot into that nipple-rubber role if Spencer Anderson is at LG for 2nd half.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Batko (@BrianBatko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianBatko\/status\/1982625303265689774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Steelers\u2019 offensive line has been effective in recent weeks, and losing a veteran starter in Seumalo would be a blow for that group. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how the Steelers look to replace him if he can\u2019t return as they try to keep their offensive line in sync.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE:\u00a0Seumalo briefly returned to the game to begin the second half, but has since been downgraded to out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2509,11882,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-16182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-injury-report","tag-isaac-seumalo","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182","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=16182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}