{"id":62029,"date":"2025-08-06T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/62029\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:59:08","slug":"steelers-qb-will-howard-out-at-least-three-weeks-with-broken-bone-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/62029\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers QB Will Howard out at least three weeks with broken bone in hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Rodgers is the present. Rookie Will Howard is potentially the future. <\/p>\n<p>He won\u2019t be available in the immediate future.<\/p>\n<p>Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Howard <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rapsheet\/status\/1952900195123118166?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">suffered a fracture in his hand<\/a> after banging it during practice.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll have additional tests. Currently, it\u2019s not believed surgery will be required. Per Rapoport, he\u2019s expected to miss at least three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Howard spent 2024 at Ohio State, after four years at Kansas State. He was drafted by the Steelers in round six.<\/p>\n<p>The other Steelers quarterbacks are Mason Rudolph and Skylar Thompson. It\u2019s not yet known whether they\u2019ll be signing another quarterback during Howard\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Howard is listed as the third-string quarterback, behind Rodgers and Rudolph, on the team\u2019s initial depth chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers is the present. Rookie Will Howard is potentially the future. He won\u2019t be available in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-62029","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\/62029","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=62029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}