{"id":52499,"date":"2025-12-04T23:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52499\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:21:21","slug":"steelers-rookie-injured-again-in-first-practice-back-with-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52499\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers Rookie Injured Again in First Practice Back with Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-injury-updates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers Injury Updates<\/a>\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers News<\/a>\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-podcasts\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers Podcasts &amp; Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6-5-2025-Steelers-OTA-6-6580.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers CB Donte Kent\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Pittsburgh Steelers rookie cornerback Donte Kent to OTAs on June 5, 2025. &#8212; Ed Thompson \/ Steelers Now\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2013 For the second time this season, a Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback suffered another injury in his first practice back with the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-return-rookie-to-practice-from-injured-reserve\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened the 21-day practice window<\/a> for rookie cornerback Donte Kent on Wednesday, and he participated in his first practice since training camp. Kent had an ankle injury at camp and spent a long time in a walking boot in the early portion of the season.<\/p>\n<p>In that practice on Wednesday, Kent suffered a new knee injury, which could jeopardize his ability to return this season. The 21-day window cannot be adjusted, so Kent has just 20 days to recover and return to form from this latest injury, or he will be forced to spend the rest of the season on the injured reserve list.<\/p>\n<p>The exact same thing happened to Cory Trice, who was on IR earlier this season with a hamstring injury. He suffered a knee injury in his first practice back and saw his 21-day window close without being activated as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers could use the depth. With James Pierre still in the concussion protocol, and <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/former-steelers-cb-darius-slay-claimed-off-waivers\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darius Slay<\/a> being  waived on Tuesday, they\u2019re down to just Joey Porter Jr., Brandin Echols and recently promoted <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-stave-off-poaching-promote-asante-samuel-to-active-roster\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asante Samuel Jr.<\/a> in terms of cornerbacks that are certain to be available this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH STEELERS WEEK 14 INJURY REPORT<\/p>\n<p>PlayerRosterInjuryWEDTHUFRIStatusOLB T.J. WattActiveToeDNPWR Ben SkowronekActiveShoulderLPPROBOT Calvin AndersonActiveKneeLPILB Patrick QueenActiveGluteDNPQUESCB James PierreActiveConcussionLPQUESQB Aaron RodgersActiveBroken left wristDNPPROBDT Derrick HarmonActiveKneeDNPOUTCB Donte KentIR ReturnRight ankle\/kneeLPIR-RETURNLT Broderick JonesIR (Week 17)NeckIRIRIRIRSS DeShon ElliottIR (Week 13)Hyperextended right kneeIRIRIRIRDT Isaiahh LoudermilkIR (Week 8)Right high ankle sprainIRIRIRIRQB Skylar ThompsonIR (Week 7)HamstringIRIRIRIRCB Cory TriceIR (Season)Hamstring, KneeDNPIRIRIR-SEASONDT Daniel EkualeIR (Season)Left ACL tearIRIRIRIR-SEASONSS Miles KillebrewIR (Season)KneeIRIRIRIR-SEASONOG Max ScharpingIR (Season)ACL sprainIR IRIRIR-SEASONDT Dean LowryIR (Season)KneeIRIRIRIR-SEASONTE Donald ParhamIR (Season)AchillesIRIRIRIR-SEASON<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned In This Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/donte-kent\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Donte Kent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers-injury-updates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers Injury Updates<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers Injury Updates\u2022Steelers News\u2022Steelers Podcasts &amp; Video Pittsburgh Steelers rookie cornerback Donte Kent to OTAs on June 5,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29671,73,75,74,1833,1829,17181],"class_list":["post-52499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-donte-kent","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers","tag-steelers-injury-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499","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=52499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}