{"id":79109,"date":"2025-08-13T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/79109\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:29:07","slug":"mike-tomlin-downplays-aaron-rodgers-being-stepped-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/79109\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tomlin downplays Aaron Rodgers being stepped on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Tuesday\u2019s practice, Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/aaron-rodgers-returns-to-practice-with-leg-wrapped-after-getting-stepped-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was stepped on<\/a>. After practice, coach Mike Tomlin downplayed the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just got stepped on,\u201d Tomlin said, via Mike DeFabo of TheAthletic.com. \u201cIt was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeDeFabo\/status\/1955364794678325352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">nothing of any significance<\/a>. He finished his work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s good news for the Steelers. It also underscores how quickly things can go haywire for any NFL team during this stage of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the Steelers are counting on Rodgers to be healthy (unlike 2023) and to win more than five games (unlike 2024). It helps that they have better players and coaching around him than the Jets had \u2014 and, perhaps more importantly, an owner who won\u2019t screw everything up, like Woody Johnson did for the Jets last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Tuesday\u2019s practice, Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was stepped on. After practice, coach Mike Tomlin downplayed the situation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-79109","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\/79109","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=79109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}