{"id":174262,"date":"2026-04-23T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174262\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:37:08","slug":"city-of-pittsburgh-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-next-nfl-stars-hundreds-of-thousands-of-visitors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174262\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Pittsburgh rolls out red carpet for next NFL stars, hundreds of thousands of visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/06679146c60bbb193160fc203f2f305a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The City of Pittsburgh is rolling out the red carpet for the NFL\u2019s next big stars and hundreds of thousands of visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Channel 11\u2019s Rich Pierce is there preparing for when draft prospects will be walking there. Tune in to his LIVE report on Channel 11 News at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:FREE WPXI News app;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Facebook;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Twitter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Watch WPXI NOW;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Pittsburgh is rolling out the red carpet for the NFL\u2019s next big stars and hundreds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18251,2697,78170,78169,73,75,74,860],"class_list":["post-174262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-channel-11-news","tag-city-of-pittsburgh","tag-draft-prospects","tag-hundreds-of-thousands","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174262","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=174262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}