{"id":275364,"date":"2026-08-30T18:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275364\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:36:08","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-trade-rb-kaleb-johnson-to-green-bay-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275364\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers trade RB Kaleb Johnson to Green Bay Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Pittsburgh Steelers have traded running back Kaleb Johnson to the Green Bay Packers. The former third-round pick thanked the Steelers in a post on his Instagram story and acknowledged the move to Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cAppreciate it Steelers nation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JBaileyNFL\/status\/2094115598905024822?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Johnson writes<\/a>. \u201cLet\u2019s do it Packers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The trade has been confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/2094116969108607444?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler<\/a>, though the compensation is unknown at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Johnson was drafted in the third round of the 2025 NFL Draft by the Steelers, but totaled just 28 carries for 69 yards as a rookie. He was noticeably behind fellow running backs Lew Nichols and Travis Homer throughout training camp and preseason in terms of carries and usage. Now, the former Iowa Hawkeye gets a fresh start in Green Bay.<\/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 have traded running back Kaleb Johnson to the Green Bay Packers. The former third-round pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,4853,7106],"class_list":["post-275364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-roster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275364","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=275364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}