{"id":50805,"date":"2025-12-03T07:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50805\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:09:19","slug":"steelers-claim-wr-adam-thielen-off-waivers-cut-cb-darius-slay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50805\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers claim WR Adam Thielen off waivers, cut CB Darius Slay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slay&#8217;s departure comes after the 34-year-old was a healthy scratch in <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/bills-at-steelers-2025-reg-13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s loss<\/a> to the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving in Pittsburgh on a one-year-deal, Slay started nine games for the Steelers in 2025, collecting 36 tackles (one for loss), three pass break-ups and one fumble recovery. His usage waned over the last two games, playing no more than 20 snaps in each of Pittsburgh&#8217;s latest two losses.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel made his debut with the club last Sunday and generated three tackles on 28 defensive snaps.<\/p>\n<p>Slay was hoped to be a reliable CB opposite <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/joey-porter-jr\/\" title=\"Joey Porter Jr.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Porter Jr.<\/a> and a veteran leader coming off his Super Bowl-winning campaign with the Eagles last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-year veteran could be claimed by a team seeking experience at CB or choose where he plays next should he clear waivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slay&#8217;s departure comes after the 34-year-old was a healthy scratch in Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Buffalo Bills. Arriving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28427,3265,19975,3282,139,3266,73,75,74,1833],"class_list":{"0":"post-50805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-adam-thielen","9":"tag-around-the-nfl","10":"tag-asante-samuel-jr","11":"tag-darius-slay","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-no-minute","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","16":"tag-pittsburgh-news","17":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50805","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=50805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}