{"id":91808,"date":"2025-05-30T23:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/91808\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T23:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:18:11","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-release-defensive-lineman-after-first-week-of-otas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/91808\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers release defensive lineman after first week of OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"TE8IlI\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthesteelcurtain.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> have made a roster move, but it\u2019s not the one many have been waiting for as it pertains to Aaron Rodgers. Instead of a signing, Pittsburgh has let a player go.<\/p>\n<p id=\"DPZqov\">Pittsburgh released defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/blake-mangelson-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Mangelson<\/a>. Mangelson was one of the undrafted free agents the Steelers signed after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Draft<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"yAbMTR\">Mangelson spent his college years at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanquishthefoe.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BYU<\/a>, racking up 37 tackles, six tackles for loss, and two sacks in 2024. In his college career, he had 82 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, and 2.5 sacks. <\/p>\n<p id=\"ctl00_phContent_hTitle\">The Steelers added several new pieces to their defensive line this offseason. They drafted Derrick Harmon, Jack Saywer, and Yahya Black were added via the NFL Draft, while Esezi Otomewo and Daniel Ekuale were signed in free agency. Pittsburgh has a ton of depth at the position, so multiple players being let go was expected to happen at some point this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers have made a roster move, but it\u2019s not the one many have been waiting for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[1938,2371,2373,1188,2135,7,29,3342,152,8405,520,2374,2375,5432,2372,426,24,1549],"class_list":{"0":"post-91808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-behind","10":"tag-curtain","11":"tag-defensive","12":"tag-first","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-lineman","16":"tag-of","17":"tag-otas","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","20":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-roster","21":"tag-release","22":"tag-steel","23":"tag-steelers","24":"tag-the","25":"tag-week"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114599344162206137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91808","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=91808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}