{"id":304262,"date":"2026-10-11T06:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304262\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T06:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:54:26","slug":"steelers-re-sign-familiar-face-at-cb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304262\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers re-sign familiar face at CB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Steelers have signed cornerback Doneiko Slaughter from the practice squad back to the 53-man roster, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelers.com\/news\/steelers-make-roster-moves-ahead-of-colts-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s been a busy 2026 for Slaughter, who started the season on the practice squad, was elevated to the active roster for each of the first three games of the season, signed to the 53-man roster for the fourth game, and then waived and re-signed to the practice squad ahead of Week 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Slaughter has only played on special teams this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In addition to signing Slaughter, the Steelers elevated running back Lew Nichols and wide receiver Brandon Smith from the practice squad to the active\/inactive roster ahead of Sunday\u2019s matchup against the Colts. Both Nichols and Smith with revert to the practice squad following the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This marks Nichols\u2019 maximum third practice squad elevation this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers have signed cornerback Doneiko Slaughter from the practice squad back to the 53-man roster, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,4853,7106],"class_list":["post-304262","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\/304262","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=304262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}