{"id":78956,"date":"2026-01-06T03:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78956\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:59:19","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-cut-ties-with-recently-inked-cornerback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78956\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers cut ties with recently-inked cornerback"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> have released cornerback Tre Flowers <\/a>from their roster after the return of DK Metcalf, the team announced. Metcalf now gets the 53rd spot on the roster, and with James Pierre and Brandin Echols healthy, the Steelers were able to move off Flowers.<\/p>\n

Flowers was signed on Christmas as the injuries in the cornerback room mounted. He played in one game for the team against the Browns, but they released him after the Ravens game, where he was inactive.<\/p>\n

Flowers played in just two games for the Detroit Lions earlier this season before they released him. He started out his career with the Seattle Seahawks, playing with the team from 2018 through 2021 out of Oklahoma State.<\/p>\n

After his departure from Seattle, Flowers has played in multiple different spots, including the Cincinnati Bengals, Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Indianapolis Colts.<\/p>\n

Flowers has 22 pass deflections and four interceptions over his career and can also bring special teams value to the roster as a punt gunner.<\/p>\n

However, the Steelers got quality punt gunner work from D\u2019Shawn Jamison off the practice squad, and it seems likelier that he will take that role moving forward than Flowers would have, thus making Flowers expendable to the Steelers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers have released cornerback Tre Flowers from their roster after the return of DK Metcalf, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20050,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-78956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-helmet-off","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78956","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=78956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}