{"id":262321,"date":"2026-08-10T00:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262321\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:22:40","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-surprisingly-release-recently-signed-wide-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262321\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers surprisingly release recently-signed wide receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Pittsburgh Steelers are releasing wide receiver Colton Dowell, per the NFL transaction wire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Steelers claimed Dowell late last week, but did not partake in the Steelers\u2019 Saturday night practice, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ASaunders_PGH\/status\/2086599988675522893?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Alan Saunders.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dowell last appeared in a regular season game in 2023 with the Tennessee Titans. The Steelers claimed him off waivers after he was waived by the San Francisco 49ers. The Steelers released wide receiver A.T. Perry in correspondence with the move to sign Dowell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Pittsburgh will return to the practice field on Monday as they gear up for their preseason opener this Thursday against the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Let us know what you think in the comments. Be sure to bookmark Behind the Steel Curtain for all the latest news, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers are releasing wide receiver Colton Dowell, per the NFL transaction wire. The Steelers claimed Dowell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,7106,108464],"class_list":["post-262321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-roster","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262321","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=262321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}