{"id":12843,"date":"2023-12-04T21:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/12843\/steelers-kenny-pickett-has-surgery\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:55:14","slug":"steelers-kenny-pickett-has-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=12843","title":{"rendered":"Steelers&#8217; Kenny Pickett has surgery for high ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers&#8217; Kenny Pickett has surgery for high ankle sprain\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett had surgery Monday for a sprained ankle and was ruled out for Thursday night&#39;s game against the New England Patriots, coach Mike Tomlin announced.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Trubisky will start at quarterback for the Steelers on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin said Monday there was no fear Pickett&#39;s injury would end his season.<\/p>\n<p>A league source told ESPN&#39;s Adam Schefter on Sunday that Pickett is expected to be out &#8220;a few weeks&#8221; with a right ankle injury.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1701716114_939_Steelers-Kenny-Pickett-has-surgery-for-high-ankle-sprain.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Pickett was injured midway through the second quarter of the Steelers&#39; 24-10 loss to the Arizona Cardinals and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Trubisky took over in Pickett&#39;s absence and finished the game 11 of 17 for 117 yards and a touchdown.  He also lost a fumble.<\/p>\n<p>Pickett, in his second season, totaled 2,070 yards with six touchdowns and four interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Sunday&#39;s loss, the Steelers (7-5) remain in position for the AFC playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers&#8217; Kenny Pickett has surgery for high ankle sprain\u060c Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett had surgery Monday for a sprained ankle and was ruled out for Thursday night&#39;s game against the New England Patriots, coach Mike Tomlin announced. Mitch Trubisky will start at quarterback for the Steelers on Thursday. Tomlin said Monday there was no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1617,1365,6922,6923,6573,4520,2060],"class_list":["post-12843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-ankle","tag-high","tag-kenny","tag-pickett","tag-sprain","tag-steelers","tag-surgery"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12844,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions\/12844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}