{"id":469246,"date":"2023-11-13T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T12:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469246"},"modified":"2023-11-13T08:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T12:24:45","slug":"pittsburgh-lb-alexander-has-torn-his-acl","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pittsburgh-lb-alexander-has-torn-his-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh LB Alexander has torn his ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers lost another starting LB for the campaign today when <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/kwon-alexander\/\">Kwon Alexander<\/a> sustained a torn ACL in the franchise\u2019s 23-19 win against the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud835\uddd5\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddde\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddda: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Steelers<\/a> LB Kwon Alexander tore his Achilles and will miss the rest of the season, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AdamSchefter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tough loss for the Steelers\u2019 defense. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0akcXPW964\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0akcXPW964<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1723822048772751699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The linebacker suffered the unfortunate injury in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> quarter on what appeared to be a noncontact problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/kwon-alexander\/\">Kwon Alexander<\/a> suffered an awful lower-body injury,&#8221; manager Mike Tomlin admitted after the match. &#8220;He&#8217;s being evaluated, but the situation looks awful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kwon had suffered from the same injury as he sustained on Christmas Day 2020 when he was part of the New Orleans Saints. Alexander inked with Pittsburgh during training camp and has been a crucial part of the roster. In the Steelers\u2019 20-16 victory against the Titans, the linebacker had the game-sealing pick vs. rookie QB Will Levis in the end zone.<\/p>\n<p>In the current campaign, he has 41 combined tackles and 5 tackles for loss, along with 1 forced fumble and the pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers lost another starting LB for the campaign today when Kwon Alexander sustained a torn ACL in the franchise\u2019s 23-19 win against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":469247,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,17148],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[22050,17873,18446],"acf":{"announce":"Steelers linebacker will miss the rest of the season.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469259,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469246\/revisions\/469259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469246"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469246"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}