{"id":417897,"date":"2026-01-20T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/417897\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:06:07","slug":"pat-freiermuth-disappointed-in-lack-of-opportunities-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/417897\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Freiermuth disappointed in lack of opportunities this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, Steelers tight end Pat Freiermuth had the second-fewest receptions and second-fewest yards in his five seasons. He barely played more than 50 percent of the snaps, the lowest percentage of snaps played in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Freiermuth split time with Darnell Washington (53 percent of snaps) and Jonnu Smith (52 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Freiermuth admitted to feeling disappointment in how he was used (or not used) in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-admits-frustration-with-steelers-offense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I am disappointed<\/a> with the lack of opportunities I was given, but at the end of the day, I\u2019m a team player, and I was proud of myself for not making it about myself,\u201d Freiermuth said on locker-room, clean-out day, via Chris Ward of steelersnow.com. <\/p>\n<p>Freiermuth finished with 41 receptions on 53 targets for 486 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always about the team and what we can do to win,\u201d Freiermuth said. \u201cI feel like I could have been in situations where I could help the team win more. But the longer I\u2019m here, I would like to see myself involved more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers will have a new head coach, a new offensive coordinator and likely a new quarterback in 2026. The question is: Will Freiermuth return? His contract runs through 2028, but he has no guaranteed money left on his deal with cap hits of $11.2 million, $12.1 million and $10.5 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, Steelers tight end Pat Freiermuth had the second-fewest receptions and second-fewest yards in his five seasons.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-417897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417897","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=417897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}