{"id":310286,"date":"2026-10-20T03:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310286\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:58:12","slug":"steelers-signing-wr-marquez-valdes-scantling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310286\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers signing WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cVeteran wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling plans to sign with the Steelers, a league source told The Athletic,\u201c DeFabo said on X. \u201dThe expectation is the 31 year old will begin on the practice squad. Second year in a row he\u2019s reuniting with Aaron Rodgers in Pittsburgh.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Valdes-Scantling joined the Steelers nearly one year ago on October 27, 2025. He appeared in five games for the Steelers, catching 10 passes for 80 yards and a touchdown. The veteran wideout appeared in three games with the Los Angeles Chargers this season, catching two passes for 22 yards. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 2018 when Mike McCarthy was the head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Steelers are thin at the wide receiver position. Both Michael Pittman and Roman Wilson are on IR, and Ben Skowronek missed Week 6 due to a leg injury. The Steelers elevated Brandon Smith and Brandon Johnson from the practice squad, but the only wide receivers to catch passes were DK Metcalf and Germie Bernard.<\/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":"\u201cVeteran wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling plans to sign with the Steelers, a league source told The Athletic,\u201c DeFabo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,4853,7106],"class_list":["post-310286","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\/310286","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=310286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}