{"id":264326,"date":"2026-08-13T02:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264326\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T02:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:10:12","slug":"lb-elandon-roberts-returning-to-pittsburgh-on-a-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264326\/","title":{"rendered":"LB Elandon Roberts returning to Pittsburgh on a one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent linebacker Elandon Roberts is returning to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers reached an agreement with the 10-year veteran on a one-year deal, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, 32, played in Pittsburgh in 2023 and 2024 before departing for Las Vegas, where he played for current Steelers defensive coordinator Patrick Graham.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts entered the NFL as a sixth-round pick of the Patriots in 2016. He played four years in New England and three in Miami before landing in Pittsburgh the first time.<\/p>\n<p>In his career, Roberts has totaled 694 tackles, 14.5 sacks, 37 quarterback hits, an interception, 13 passes defensed and five forced fumbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent linebacker Elandon Roberts is returning to Pittsburgh. The Steelers reached an agreement with the 10-year veteran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-264326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264326","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=264326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}