{"id":760314,"date":"2026-02-18T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760314\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:00:27","slug":"where-did-steelers-fail-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760314\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did Steelers Fail in 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/nfl-draft\/2023-nfl-draft\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">2023 NFL Draft<\/a>\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-podcasts\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers Podcasts &amp; Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Copy-of-Steelers-Morning-Rush-90.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Steelers\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. <\/p>\n<p>Today, it\u2019s where the team\u2019s plans for the 2025 season fell short. General manager <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/omar-khan\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Omar Khan<\/a> again left the team wanting at the wide receiver position, which turned into a near-disaster and has left the cupboard extremely bare entering 2026, while their long-term desire to land a quarterback in the <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/nfl-draft\/2026-nfl-draft\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NFL Draft<\/a> might have handcuffed them from acquiring a wide receiver \u2014 only for that plan to largely fail, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Alan breaks it down.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers-morning-rush\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SMR-LOGO.png\" alt=\"Steelers Morning Rush\" class=\"wp-image-74417\" style=\"width:788px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers-morning-rush\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click for the full archives of Steelers Morning Rush.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759929730_113_Steelers-Now-SN.jpeg\" alt=\"Steelers Now Youtube\" class=\"wp-image-44300\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@PghSteelersNow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Check out more from Alan Saunders, Zachary Smith and the rest of the team on the Steelers Now Youtube page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned In This Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/mike-mccarthy\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Mike McCarthy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/omar-khan\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Omar Khan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2023 NFL Draft\u2022Steelers Podcasts &amp; Video Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,7866,6,1256,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-760314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-mike-mccarthy","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-omar-khan","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116091764888640667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760314","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=760314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}