{"id":834144,"date":"2026-03-26T03:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/834144\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:07:20","slug":"joe-burrow-gets-a-bizarre-take-from-the-steelers-media-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/834144\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Burrow gets a bizarre take from the Steelers&#8217; media sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 25, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In strange <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>-adjacent news, a former Pittsburgh Steelers player swears he\u2019s recruiting Joe Burrow to town.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former Steelers defender James Harrison, who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bengals<\/a> fans are far too familiar with, recently hit the podcast circuit and said he\u2019s working on recruiting Burrow to the Steelers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Harrison\u2019s odd commentary included the following:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI\u2019ve been conversing with him on here on a weekly, bi-weekly basis. We\u2019ve been having conversations. I talked to him on the phone yesterday. We\u2019ve been talking about him\u2026 he\u2019s going to go up there, talk to Mr. [Mike] Brown to see what he needs to do to get into black and gold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Considering the other people in the interview, including Ben Roethlisberger, seemed blindsided by the whole thing, it\u2019s pretty easy to tag this one as a lie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It is, in fact, as silly as <a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/03\/11\/former-bengals-player-swears-trade-maxx-crosby\/89109714007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam \u201cPacman\u201d Jones swearing the Bengals will trade for Maxx Crosby<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">That\u2019s sort of where things are right now when it comes to former NFL players on the media circuit this time of year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And, in a way, that\u2019s sort of where the Bengals sit, reputation-wise, nationally: Next season is a high-pressure year for the organization to get things right for Burrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 25, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET In strange Cincinnati Bengals-adjacent news, a former Pittsburgh Steelers player swears he\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[95878,7,6,520,57,2360,13078,95905,426,95882,95913,96121,98488,95896,95888,95897,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-834144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","15":"tag-sstsnbengals","16":"tag-steelers","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","19":"tag-tagjoe-burrow","20":"tag-tagmaxx-crosby","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagoverall-negative","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116293274401540896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834144","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=834144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}