{"id":173557,"date":"2026-04-23T05:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173557\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:14:28","slug":"the-nfl-draft-is-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-for-many-no-wonder-pittsburgh-is-a-fitting-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173557\/","title":{"rendered":"The NFL draft is the light at the end of the tunnel for many. No wonder Pittsburgh is a fitting host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZPEMJ7N7URBQRN5I6LTEY3XEDA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The runway up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL draft<\/a> can feel endless for the young men who put themselves under its exacting process. Years of hard work followed by weeks of being poked and prodded, culminating in days of anxiety-inducing uncertainty while they wait for their name to be called.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The runway up to the NFL draft can feel endless for the young men who put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77866,77862,303,77863,3537,7393,11918,77864,22141,77865,11703,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-173557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-2026-nfl-schedule","9":"tag-fbn-nfl-draft","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl-2026-news","12":"tag-nfl-draft","13":"tag-nfl-football","14":"tag-nfl-highlights","15":"tag-nfl-latest-news","16":"tag-nfl-news","17":"tag-nfl-schedule-2026","18":"tag-nfl-scores","19":"tag-pittsburgh","20":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","21":"tag-pittsburgh-news","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173557","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=173557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}