{"id":243306,"date":"2025-10-22T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243306\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:42:11","slug":"nfl-world-reacts-after-steelers-lose-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243306\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL world reacts after Steelers lose quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers are looking to get things sorted out after an embarrassing performance against the Cincinnati Bengals. Although Pittsburgh is 4-2, which is good for first place in the AFC North, the Bengals gashed the Steelers\u2019 defense both on the ground and in the air, despite entering the contest having lost four games in a row after losing star quarterback Joe Burrow to a turf toe injury.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tomlin, the Steelers\u2019 head coach, talked in his Tuesday press conference about the secondary not meeting his expectations to this point in the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike Tomlin says the Steelers\u2019 secondary \u2018certainly hasn\u2019t met my vision\u2019 yet to this point, but he\u2019s not panicking right now,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FarabaughFB\/status\/1980668994714542531\" rel=\"nofollow\">team insider Nick Farabaugh reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As much as Pittsburgh knows it has to improve its defense, the team is also trying to maximize its potential on offense, which requires some tough decision-making. As such, the Steelers have made the decision to part ways with a quarterback, losing his services for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have terminated QB Logan Woodside from the Practice Squad,\u201d the franchise revealed from its official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have terminated QB Logan Woodside from the Practice Squad. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BordasLaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BordasLaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steelers\/status\/1980722206289305754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans reacted to the move on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m guessing that means Howard is 100%?\u201d one fan wondered about rookie quarterback Will Howard, who has been dealing with an injury through the first part of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry to hear that! Best of luck to him in his future endeavors,\u201d someone else added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnnounce Mike Tomlin and Teryl Austin, too,\u201d another fan added.<\/p>\n<p>With the Steelers starting the oldest quarterback in the league, cutting a player behind him could rear its head in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers are looking to get things sorted out after an embarrassing performance against the Cincinnati Bengals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,91107,398,396,397,1321,99],"class_list":["post-243306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-logan-woodside","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}