{"id":292133,"date":"2026-09-23T08:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292133\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:42:32","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-get-positive-injury-update-on-rico-dowdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292133\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers get positive injury update on Rico Dowdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Pittsburgh Steelers received good news regarding an injury hampering one of their main offensive weapons. Running back Rico Dowdle left Sunday\u2019s game against the New England Patriots with a toe injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tests came back \u201crelatively OK\u201d on Dowdle\u2019s toe after further evaluation, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rapsheet\/status\/2102512213302899052?s=46&amp;t=N2Ft50p-TgXY6uljxpiPEQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">NFL Network and ESPN insider Ian Rapoport<\/a>. Dowdle is considered day-to-day as the Steelers prepare for the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dowdle was carted to the locker room in the first half. He briefly returned, but couldn\u2019t finish the game. Hecarried the ball seven times for 22 yards (3.1 yards per carry) and caught two passes for the same amount of yardage in the 20-3 loss to the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He is only averaging 2.7 yards per carry through his first two games with the Steelers after back-to-back seasons of over 1,070 yards in Carolina. Dowdle played his first four seasons in Dallas under Mike McCarthy and outsnapped Jaylen Warren 39-25 in week one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Steelers prepare for their most difficult task yet, facing the 2-0 Bengals with an improved defense and healthy Joe Burrow in the first divisional game of the year.<\/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 received good news regarding an injury hampering one of their main offensive weapons. Running back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,10947,4853],"class_list":["post-292133","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-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292133","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=292133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}