{"id":375409,"date":"2025-12-29T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375409\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:14:08","slug":"source-t-j-watt-is-a-long-shot-to-play-next-weekend-vs-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375409\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: T.J. Watt is a &#8220;long shot&#8221; to play next weekend vs. Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers and the Ravens will meet next weekend, with the AFC North title on the line. For the home team, the question is whether linebacker T.J. Watt will be ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>He had surgery on December 12 to repair a partially collapsed lung. Watt has missed the last three games.<\/p>\n<p>Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Watt is considered a \u201clong shot\u201d to play in Week 18. Added the source, \u201cNever say never but not an ideal timeline to be fully cleared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Via Tracy Wolfson of CBS, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Watt won\u2019t play until he has a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tracywolfson\/status\/2005275508309999893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">week of practice as a full participant<\/a>. Tomlin added that they\u2019re treating Watt\u2019s condition differently than an injury situation.<\/p>\n<p>As they should. Watt didn\u2019t suffer an injury; he was the victim of apparent malpractice, from whoever performed a defective dry-needle procedure that punctured Watt\u2019s lung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers and the Ravens will meet next weekend, with the AFC North title on the line. For&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-375409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375409","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=375409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}