{"id":849722,"date":"2026-04-02T17:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849722\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:58:23","slug":"kyle-dugger-one-and-done-with-steelers-reportedly-signs-with-division-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849722\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Dugger One-And-Done With Steelers, Reportedly Signs With Division Rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Dugger is one-and-done with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/pittsburgh-steelers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dugger, who was acquired from the New England Patriots in 2025, will play for a third team in two seasons after signing with the Cincinnati Bengals, according to\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2039743320251867576?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dugger, 30, finished with\u00a042 total tackles, five pass breakups, and two interceptions across his stints in New England and Pittsburgh &#8212; the latter of which gave up a late-round pick swap in order to obtain his services after starting strong safety\u00a0DeShon Elliott\u00a0went on season-ending injured reserve in October.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers moved on after just one season as the veteran\u00a0played nearly every defensive snap in his first eight games with the club before seeing those numbers decrease dramatically in the regular season finale and in the playoffs, with\u00a0with fellow veteran\u00a0Chuck Clark\u00a0earning more playing time in those matchups against the Cleveland Browns and Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengals will welcome the help as they recently saw safety Geno Stone sign with the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/new-england-patriots\/news\/final-patriots-unrestricted-free-agent-reportedly-meets-afc-south-squad\/0a395c0386967ef68336acc1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Final Patriots Unrestricted Free Agent Reportedly Meets With AFC South Squad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Dugger is one-and-done with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Dugger, who was acquired from the New England Patriots in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-849722","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-pittsburghsteelers","13":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116336414288011132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849722","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=849722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}