{"id":275666,"date":"2026-08-31T09:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275666\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:28:37","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-place-veteran-defender-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275666\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers place veteran defender on IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Pittsburgh Steelers will be without one of their top defenders in the secondary to start the season. The Steelers have placed safety <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteelersPRDept\/status\/2094187226850525289?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">DeShon Elliott<\/a> on IR. Elliott will now miss at least the first four games of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After suffering a significant leg injury in Week 8 against the Packers and missing the remainder of the 2025 season, Elliott fought his way back onto the field this training camp. He made his return to live action against the Jets on August 21, but did not play against the Bills on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Injuries limited Elliott to only five games last year, totaling 38 tackles, one sack, and one interception. Elliott signed a two-year extension in June of 2025 that keeps him under contract through 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Steelers\u2019 secondary is already thin and missing Elliott is a significant blow. Pittsburgh signed veteran Jaquan Brisker in the offseason and has occasionally deployed Jalen Ramsey at safety, needing to fill a gap left by Elliott. Seventh-round pick Robert Spears-Jennings also made the initial 53-man roster, and veteran Rayshawn Jenkins will also be expected to play a major role in Elliott\u2019s absence. The Steelers list Ramsey as a nickel corner, but did play some safety in Mike Tomlin\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Atlanta Falcons visit Acrisure Stadium for the season opener two weeks from now on September 13.<\/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 will be without one of their top defenders in the secondary to start the season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,10947,7106],"class_list":["post-275666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-injuries","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-roster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275666","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=275666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}