{"id":274356,"date":"2026-08-29T02:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274356\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T02:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:14:16","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-make-first-wave-of-cuts-release-11-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274356\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers make first wave of cuts, release 11 players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL has mandated all 32 NFL franchises cut their rosters from 90 to 53 by Sunday at 6pm EST, but some teams don\u2019t wait for the deadline to start releasing players.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers were a team who didn\u2019t wait, and released their first wave of players. In this wave 11 players were told their services were no longer needed.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list of players released:<\/p>\n<p>TE Jaheim Bell<br \/>OL Greg Crippen<br \/>DB Jaylon Guilbeau<br \/>DB Jack Henderson<br \/>DB Brandon Hill<br \/>WR Jakobie Keeney-James<br \/>DB Tamon Lynum<br \/>DB Daryl Porter<br \/>WR Cornell Powell<br \/>RB Alex Tecza<br \/>WR Isaiah Winstead<\/p>\n<p>Of the 11 players released, none really come as a surprise to fans who have been paying attention to the roster development aspect of the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Could some of these players return to the team\u2019s 16-player practice squad? It is possible, but players released in the first wave are rarely considered for those valuable positions on the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers now prepare for their next wave of cuts, which could come at any time before the NFL\u2019s deadline Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to stay tuned to SCN for the latest news and notes surrounding the Steelers as they now prepare for their next wave Atlanta Falcons in Week 1 of the 2026 regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL has mandated all 32 NFL franchises cut their rosters from 90 to 53 by Sunday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-274356","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\/274356","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=274356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}