{"id":354562,"date":"2025-09-09T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/354562\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:50:10","slug":"steelers-signing-veteran-safety-jabrill-peppers-in-wake-of-deshon-elliott-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/354562\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers signing veteran safety Jabrill Peppers in wake of DeShon Elliott injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH (WJAC)  \u2014 With safety DeShon Elliott expected to be sidelined for several weeks, the Pittsburgh Steelers are adding reinforcements to its secondary.<\/p>\n<p>NFL sources report that Elliott is likely to miss a couple of weeks with an MCL sprain suffered during <a href=\"https:\/\/wjactv.com\/sports\/steelers\/aaron-rodgers-looks-right-at-home-vs-jets-steelers-debut-4-td-passes-win-sports-pittsburgh-new-york-qb-quarterback-football-nfl\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/wjactv.com\/sports\/steelers\/aaron-rodgers-looks-right-at-home-vs-jets-steelers-debut-4-td-passes-win-sports-pittsburgh-new-york-qb-quarterback-football-nfl\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunday&#8217;s victory over the Jets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his absence, Pittsburgh is signing veteran safety Jabrill Peppers to the team&#8217;s active roster, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1965421988429922633\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1965421988429922633\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to league insider Ian Rapoport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peppers, who was a first-round pick in 2017, was surprisingly cut by the New England Patriots during this year&#8217;s preseason.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-year NFL veteran spent the past three seasons in Foxborough, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/P\/PeppJa00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/P\/PeppJa00.htm\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">started 26 games for the Patriots.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peppers previously spent two seasons in Cleveland and three years with the Giants following a stout collegiate career at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (WJAC) \u2014 With safety DeShon Elliott expected to be sidelined for several weeks, the Pittsburgh Steelers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[3455,7,7899,58316,6,208,520,57,2360,2679,7303,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-354562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-deshon-elliott","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jabrill-peppers","11":"tag-mcl-sprain","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-patriots","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","16":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","17":"tag-safety","18":"tag-secondary","19":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115175137660850616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354562","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=354562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}