{"id":315698,"date":"2025-08-25T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/315698\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T06:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:30:16","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-dt-keeanu-benton-misses-practice-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/315698\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers DT Keeanu Benton misses practice with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pittsburgh Steelers have already seen one starting defensive lineman go down with injury, with Derrick Harmon suffering a sprained MCL. Now, another Pittsburgh starter is dealing with an injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chris Halicke of DK Pittsburgh Sports reports that defensive tackle Keeanu Benton is dealing with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cKeeanu Benton is dealing with an upper-body injury,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dkpittsburghsports.com\/team\/steelers\/feed?page=0#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halicke reports<\/a>. \u201cHe did not practice today. However, there\u2019s optimism he\u2019ll be ready for the season opener against the Jets. Still significant since Derrick Harmon is currently week-to-week with an MCL sprain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Steelers seem to get bitten by the injury bug every season, specifically on defense. In 2023, Cam Heyward was injured in the season opener against the San Francisco 49ers. The Steelers had several injuries in the secondary and at linebacker that season, as well, causing them to bring Myles Jack out of retirement and sign safety Eric Rowe off the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HighAl02.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Highsmith<\/a> missed six games with various injuries. Nick Herbig missed four games. Now, it appears the defensive interior is getting hit hard. For the Steelers\u2019 sake, let\u2019s hope these injuries are a temporary problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Be sure to bookmark Behind the Steel Curtain for all the latest news, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers have already seen one starting defensive lineman go down with injury, with Derrick Harmon suffering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,520,57,26330,2374,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-315698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-injuries","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115088000643493975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315698","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=315698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}