{"id":809181,"date":"2026-08-10T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809181\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:40:09","slug":"steelers-first-round-pick-max-iheanachor-remains-out-of-practice-with-no-timeline-for-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809181\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers first-round pick Max Iheanachor remains out of practice with no timeline for return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Steelers rookie offensive tackle Max Iheanachor suffered an injury at practice last week, head coach Mike McCarthy indicated he would be <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/steelers-ol-max-iheanachor-ok-after-early-practice-exit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">back by Monday<\/a>. That has proven not to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Today McCarthy told reporters that Iheanachor remains out of practice, and there\u2019s no timeline for him to return.<\/p>\n<p>That could indicate that the injury Iheanachor suffered, which has been termed a neck\/shoulder injury, is more serious than originally thought. But it could also just be that the Steelers want to be cautious with their first-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers open the preseason on Thursday against the Packers, and while there\u2019s no official word on whether Iheanachor will play, it seems unlikely that he\u2019ll be on the field Thursday if he can\u2019t go today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Steelers rookie offensive tackle Max Iheanachor suffered an injury at practice last week, head coach Mike McCarthy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-809181","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\/809181","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=809181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}