{"id":391153,"date":"2025-09-23T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/391153\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:25:14","slug":"steelers-hc-mike-tomlin-provides-injury-update-on-3-starters-ahead-of-week-4-vs-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/391153\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers HC Mike Tomlin provides injury update on 3 starters ahead of Week 4 vs. Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/steelers-defensive-snap-counts-week-193055496.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> received some important injury updates on Tuesday \u2014 OLB Alex Highsmith, S DeShon Elliott, and CB Joey Porter \u2014 courtesy of HC <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/steelers-legend-terry-bradshaw-says-225341736.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mike Tomlin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tomlin<\/a> ahead of their Week 4 matchup vs. the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/vikings-j-j-mccarthy-ruled-011035461.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Vikings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>While Highsmith was ruled out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steelers<\/a>&#8216; Ireland matchup vs. the Vikings, Elliott and Porter have a chance to play this week. Tomlin also stated during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j9s9qE65fhE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tuesday&#039;s press conference;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tuesday&#8217;s press conference<\/a> in the that their availability is indicative of their participation this week.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Elliott and Porter were injured in the Steelers&#8217; regular season opener against the New York Jets, while Highsmith injured his ankle versus the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seattle Seahawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> in Week 2 and was expected to miss multiple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The true embodiment of a next-man-up mentality, CB Brandin Echols, S Jabrill Peppers, and OLB Nick Herbig all performed exceptionally well in the absence of Porter, Elliott, and Highsmith respectively, with Steelers Nation hopeful the trio of underrated defenders can keep the ball rolling as Pittsburgh prepares for their long trip overseas to Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>For up-to-date\u00a0Steelers\u00a0coverage, as well as Pittsburgh&#8217;s Week 4 Ireland matchup vs. the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/minnesota-vikings\/347\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Vikings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, follow us on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteelersWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@TheSteelersWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@TheSteelersWire<\/a>\u00a0and give our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SteelersWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0a like.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2025\/09\/23\/steelers-vikings-injury-update-mike-tomlin\/86310660007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers Week 4: Mike Tomlin provides injury update on 3 starters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steelers Week 4: Mike Tomlin provides injury update on 3 starters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers received some important injury updates on Tuesday \u2014 OLB Alex Highsmith, S DeShon Elliott, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[6310,12009,3455,7,24788,8188,7899,18740,1255,233,259,2529,255,6,6313,57,261,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-391153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-alex-highsmith","9":"tag-brandin-echols","10":"tag-deshon-elliott","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-injury-updates","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-jabrill-peppers","15":"tag-joey-porter","16":"tag-mike-tomlin","17":"tag-minnesota","18":"tag-minnesota-vikings","19":"tag-minnesotavikings","20":"tag-new-york-jets","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-nick-herbig","23":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","24":"tag-seattle-seahawks","25":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115254783159253683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391153","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=391153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}