{"id":18838,"date":"2024-01-09T20:40:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/18838\/steelers-rule-t-j-watt-out\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:40:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:40:52","slug":"steelers-rule-t-j-watt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=18838","title":{"rendered":"Steelers rule T.J. Watt out; Mason Rudolph to remain QB1 vs. Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers rule T.J. Watt out; Mason Rudolph to remain QB1 vs. Bills\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pittsburgh Steelers star outside linebacker TJ Watt has been ruled out of Sunday&#39;s wild-card game against the Buffalo Bills because of a knee injury, coach Mike Tomlin announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin also announced that Mason Rudolph will continue to play quarterback for Sunday&#39;s playoff game.  The Steelers have won three straight games since Rudolph was inserted as starter.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin said the Steelers would &#8220;continue to ride the hot hand and not disrupt the apple cart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Watt injured his knee during last Saturday&#39;s <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> against the Baltimore Ravens.  The team did not reveal the specific nature of Watt&#39;s injury.  Retired passer JJ Watt announced on social media Sunday that his brother suffered a grade 2 MCL sprain and needed &#8220;a few weeks of rest\/recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TJ Watt led the NFL this season with 19 sacks.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, rookie Nick Herbig and Markus Golden replaced Watt, and Golden got the sack from quarterback Tyler Huntley to force the Ravens to settle for a field goal on their final drive.<\/p>\n<p><em>ESPN&#39;s Brooke Pryor contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers rule T.J. Watt out; Mason Rudolph to remain QB1 vs. Bills\u060c Pittsburgh Steelers star outside linebacker TJ Watt has been ruled out of Sunday&#39;s wild-card game against the Buffalo Bills because of a knee injury, coach Mike Tomlin announced Tuesday. Tomlin also announced that Mason Rudolph will continue to play quarterback for Sunday&#39;s playoff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1898,6635,6085,2174,7868,4093,4520,6610,178],"class_list":["post-18838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-bills","tag-mason","tag-qb1","tag-remain","tag-rudolph","tag-rule","tag-steelers","tag-t-j","tag-watt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838","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=18838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18840,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838\/revisions\/18840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}