{"id":633334,"date":"2026-05-09T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/633334\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:29:08","slug":"veteran-wr-scotty-miller-angles-for-roster-spot-at-bears-rookie-minicamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/633334\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran WR Scotty Miller angles for roster spot at Bears&#8217; rookie minicamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran receiver Scotty Miller, who spent the 2024 and 2025 seasons in Pittsburgh, has found no takers in free agency. He\u2019s participating in the Bears\u2019 rookie minicamp on a tryout basis, in an effort to win a spot on the 90-man offseason roster.<\/p>\n<p>As Larry Mayer of the team\u2019s official website explains it, Miller made a \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobears.com\/news\/bears-aiming-to-introduce-rookies-to-our-way-of-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dazzling diving catch deep down the right sideline<\/a>\u201d on the last snap of Friday\u2019s minicamp practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a history with [receivers] coach [Antwaan] Randle El,\u201d Bears coach Ben Johnson told reporters. \u201cRandle El was with him when he was a young buck there in Tampa, so there are some shared experiences. Looking forward to seeing him run around and compete a little bit. From afar, I\u2019ve been able to see the speed, quickness. [He\u2019s] certainly very intriguing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A sixth-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2019, Miller won a Super Bowl in 2020 with Tampa. After four seasons there, he spent a year in Atlanta before joining the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 season was his best, by far, with 33 catches for 501 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran receiver Scotty Miller, who spent the 2024 and 2025 seasons in Pittsburgh, has found no takers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-633334","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\/633334","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=633334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}