{"id":206857,"date":"2026-05-31T13:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206857\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:53:24","slug":"steelers-rb-rico-dowdles-arrival-in-pittsburgh-has-uncanny-backstory-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206857\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers RB Rico Dowdle\u2019s arrival in Pittsburgh has uncanny backstory \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 This article originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SteelersNOW.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Weeks before <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/rico-dowdle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rico Dowdle<\/a> put pen to paper and joined the Pittsburgh Steelers, his mother put the move into the ether.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">All it took was seeing the news that <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/mike-mccarthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike McCarthy<\/a> was taking over for his hometown team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI think my mom was the first one to say it,\u201d the tailback said after Thursday\u2019s OTA practice at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. \u201cWhen she\u2019d seen him get hired, she called me and said, \u2018You\u2019re going to Pittsburgh.\u2019 Like, as soon as he got hired, that\u2019s the first thing she said.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-rb-rico-dowdles-arrival-in-pittsburgh-has-uncanny-backstory\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-rb-rico-dowdles-arrival-in-pittsburgh-has-uncanny-backstory\/\">Click here to read more from SteelersNOW.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 This article originally appeared on SteelersNOW.com. Weeks before Rico Dowdle put pen to paper and joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8203,73,75,74,39228,1829],"class_list":["post-206857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-mike-mccarthy","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rico-dowdle","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206857","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=206857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}