{"id":500165,"date":"2026-03-03T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500165\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:18:11","slug":"report-broderick-jones-underwent-fusion-surgery-which-could-impact-his-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500165\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Broderick Jones underwent fusion surgery, which could impact his 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers left tackle Broderick Jones injured his neck in Week 12, landing on injured reserve. The team downplayed it, expecting him to return for the playoffs, but Jones didn\u2019t play again last season.<\/p>\n<p>Mike DeFabo of TheAthletic.com reports that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7079348\/2026\/03\/02\/pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-combine-free-agency-offseason-plans\/?source=emp_shared_article&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.QFA.calO.ZTP-2zG-e4pD&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jones underwent fusion surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That creates several problems for the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>They will have to decide by May 1 whether to exercise the fifth-year option on Jones\u2019 contract, which will fully guarantee him $19.07 million for 2027. Jones also might miss time in 2026, so the Steelers might need an option, at least short-term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, he had a significant injury, and we\u2019re monitoring how he progresses,\u201d Steelers General Manager Omar Khan said last week at the Scouting Combine. \u201cI know he\u2019s working hard. It\u2019s early in the process. That\u2019s certainly something that we\u2019re monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A first-round pick in 2023, Jones had played in every regular-season game of his three-year career until his injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers left tackle Broderick Jones injured his neck in Week 12, landing on injured reserve. The team downplayed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-500165","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\/500165","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=500165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}