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The action drew a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Before dunking over the goalpost was banned by the NFL in 2014, former Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez did his part in popularizing it. Washington doesn\u2019t think there should be a rule against it.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless it\u2019s, like, excessive hanging on it, then OK \u2026 maybe not that,\u201d Washington said afterward. \u201cBut, I mean, just a quick little tap or whatever, I feel like (there\u2019s) no harm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Washington said he knew he wasn\u2019t allowed to celebrate in such a way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew something like that, something like that along the lines,\u201d Washington said.<\/p>\n
According to MaxPreps<\/a>, Washington averaged 6.1 points and 5.8 rebounds per game on the hardwood as a senior at Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Darnell Washington at OTAs on June 5, 2025. \u2014 Ed Thompson \/ Steelers Now<\/p>\n Washington later discussed why avoiding infractions is crucial to the Steelers\u2019 success on offense.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cWe talk about pre-snap penalties \u2014 that\u2019s jumping offsides, things like that,\u201d Washington said. \u201cEven post-snap penalties, holding. All that stuff can\u2019t come back to bite us in the play at the end. I feel like that\u2019s probably the key thing if you wanna be a good offense, is (to) eliminate all the penalties.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t worry about, \u2018Oh, we just got a big play. Oh, well, they\u2019re calling it back because of this.’\u201d<\/p>\n This article originally appeared on Steelers Now<\/a>: Steelers TE Darnell Washington Defends Celebratory Dunk Despite Penalty: \u2018No Harm\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Darnell Washington channeled his inner Shaquille O\u2019Neal and pretended a goalpost at EverBank Stadium was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[457,9676,7,125,110,1744,560,6,520,57,2360,26835,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-276360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-darnell-washington","9":"tag-ed-thompson","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-las-vegas","14":"tag-mason-rudolph","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-pittsburgh","17":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","18":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","19":"tag-shaquille-oneal","20":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115003329834179889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pittsburgh](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/91da4a5cbb090fac4601ce5b5979144e.jpeg\"\/)
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