{"id":8168,"date":"2025-04-28T23:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/8168\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:02:09","slug":"steelers-news-pittsburgh-signs-former-texans-wr-robert-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/8168\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers news: Pittsburgh signs former Texans WR Robert Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"XDxUpn\">After avoiding the wide receiver position in the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Draft<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthesteelcurtain.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers<\/a> signed veteran pass-catcher Robert Woods to a one-year contract on April 28. The move was first reported by Fox Sports\u2019 Jordan Schultz. <\/p>\n<p id=\"1OIcTf\">Per NFL Network\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1916974860137599358\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ian Rapoport<\/a>, the deal is worth $2 million. <\/p>\n<p id=\"qahVDY\">Woods has been in the NFL since 2013. The 6\u20190, 193-pound wide receiver has 8,233 career receiving yards to go along with 38 touchdowns. <\/p>\n<p id=\"Ltkgbr\">In 2024 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleredblog.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans<\/a>, Woods logged 20 receptions for 203 yards and no touchdowns. He had back-to-back 1,000-plus-yard seasons in 2018 and 2019 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turfshowtimes.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"a85mW7\">Considered one of the top blocking wide receivers in the league over his career, Woods provides a veteran presence to the Steelers young receiving room. <\/p>\n<p id=\"J3esf7\">Woods has averaged 686 yards per season over his 12-year career, and he projects as an underneath Z\/slot receiver in Pittsburgh. Woods ran a 4.51-second 40-yard dash as a rookie and suffered a torn ACL in 2021; he enters the 2025 season at 33 years old. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After avoiding the wide receiver position in the 2025 NFL Draft, the Steelers signed veteran pass-catcher Robert Woods&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[2371,2373,7,2795,29,221,253,2368,88,6,520,2374,2375,5358,2798,2372,426,222,24,5359,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-8168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-behind","9":"tag-curtain","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-former","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-texans","15":"tag-houstontexans","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","20":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-roster","21":"tag-robert","22":"tag-signs","23":"tag-steel","24":"tag-steelers","25":"tag-texans","26":"tag-the","27":"tag-woods","28":"tag-wr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168","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=8168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}