{"id":176083,"date":"2026-04-25T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176083\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:08:10","slug":"former-notre-dame-dl-gabriel-rubio-drafted-by-pittsburgh-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176083\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Notre Dame DL Gabriel Rubio drafted by Pittsburgh Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/teams\/notre-dame\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Notre Dame;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Notre Dame&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Notre Dame<\/a> defensive tackle <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/players\/323264\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gabriel Rubio;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Gabriel Rubio&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Rubio<\/a> has been taken by the <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Pittsburgh Steelers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio was taken 29th in the sixth round of the draft, or 210th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio played in 39 games over five seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/notre-dame-fighting-irish\/3509\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fighting Irish;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Fighting Irish&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Fighting Irish<\/a>, racking up 27 solo tackles and 39 assisted, for 66 combined. He had seven tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, three passes defended and one forced fumble. He did miss six games in 2025 due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/IrishWireND\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@IrishWireND;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@IrishWireND&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@IrishWireND<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheFightingIrishWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;&amp;nbsp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Notre Dame news, notes and opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Follow Tim on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tehealey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@tehealey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@tehealey&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@tehealey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Fighting Irish Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightingirishwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/fighting-irish\/football\/2026\/04\/25\/notre-dame-football-gabriel-rubio-pittsburgh-steelers-2026-nfl-draft\/89799617007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Notre Dame DL Gabriel Rubio drafted by Pittsburgh Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Former Notre Dame DL Gabriel Rubio drafted by Pittsburgh Steelers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Former Notre Dame DL Gabriel Rubio drafted by Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Notre Dame defensive tackle Gabriel Rubio has been taken by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2026 NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[78817,78816,19776,78818,78811,3746,21580,73,75,74,1833],"class_list":{"0":"post-176083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-39-games","9":"tag-defensive-tackle","10":"tag-fighting-irish","11":"tag-forced-fumble","12":"tag-gabriel-rubio","13":"tag-notre-dame","14":"tag-notre-dame-football","15":"tag-pittsburgh","16":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","17":"tag-pittsburgh-news","18":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176083","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=176083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}