{"id":301057,"date":"2025-08-19T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/301057\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:47:17","slug":"steelers-make-roster-moves-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/301057\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers make roster moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers signed linebacker Kenny Willekes.<\/p>\n<p>Willekes spent one season (2021) with the Minnesota Vikings and appeared in six games. He had 18 tackles, including 11 solo stops, two tackles for a loss and a pass defensed.<\/p>\n<p>Willekes found success in the USFL, playing for the Michigan Panthers in 2024. He played in nine games, finishing with 21 tackles and four sacks.<\/p>\n<p>Willekes played college football at Michigan State where he was the 2018 National Defensive Lineman of the Year. He was a two-time All-Big Ten selection (2018-19) and won team Most Valuable Player honors both years.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, the team waived\/injured offensive tackle Gareth Warren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers signed linebacker Kenny Willekes. Willekes spent one season (2021) with the Minnesota Vikings and appeared in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[13905,198,7,6,520,57,2360,915,426,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-301057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-bordas-bordas","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-sights-and-sounds","16":"tag-steelers","17":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115056453558567087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301057","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=301057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}