{"id":311495,"date":"2026-10-22T02:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311495\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T02:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:48:18","slug":"rayshawn-jenkins-released-by-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311495\/","title":{"rendered":"Rayshawn Jenkins: Released by Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Oct 21, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                    at<\/p>\n<p>    9:44 pm ET<\/p>\n<p>                \u2022<\/p>\n<p>            1 min read<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers released <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/1998315\/jenkins\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenkins<\/a> on Wednesday, Teresa Varley of the team&#8217;s official site reports.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins started the regular season at strong safety before being benched for Robert Spears-Jennings in Week 5. The veteran defensive back was likely seen as expendable, with DeShon Elliott (knee) set to return from IR soon and reclaim his starting role at strong safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 21, 2026 at 9:44 pm ET \u2022 1 min read The Steelers released Jenkins on Wednesday, Teresa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15831,73,75,74,123600],"class_list":["post-311495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fantasy-football","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rayshawn-jenkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311495","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=311495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}