{"id":680335,"date":"2026-01-15T22:42:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/680335\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:42:26","slug":"steelers-sign-wr-ol-to-futures-deals-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/680335\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers sign WR, OL to futures deals Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As the Steelers continue their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthesteelcurtain.com\/pittsburgh-steelers-news\/165332\/pittsburgh-steelers-head-coach-tracker-interviews-requests-and-potential-hires-brian-flores-minnesota-vikings-chris-shula\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">search for a new head coach<\/a>, general manager Omar Khan has also began to construct the team\u2019s offseason 90-man roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Steelers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelers.com\/news\/steelers-sign-two-to-reserve-future-contracts-x2039\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Thursday that the team has signed wide receiver Brandon Johnson and offensive lineman Doug Nester to reserve\/futures deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Johnson is a veteran receiver with 23 games of NFL experience, with three of those coming with Pittsburgh in 2024. Steelers wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni called Johnson a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/unheralded-steelers-wr-could-noise-153108778.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sneaky good player<\/a>\u201d over the summer. The 27-year-old pass catcher has 335 career receiving yards with five touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nester doesn\u2019t have any NFL regular season experience, but he was a college teammate of Steelers\u2019 center Zach Frazier at West Virginia, where he started games at both guard and tackle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You can view the current state of the Steelers roster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelers.com\/team\/players-roster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Steelers continue their search for a new head coach, general manager Omar Khan has also began&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,520,57,2374,2375,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-680335","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-news","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-roster","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115901533116365989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680335","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=680335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}