{"id":475659,"date":"2024-01-12T01:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T05:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475659"},"modified":"2024-01-12T01:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T05:02:51","slug":"pittsburgh-safety-fitzpatrick-set-to-return-against-bills","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pittsburgh-safety-fitzpatrick-set-to-return-against-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh safety Fitzpatrick set to return against Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 defense should look a lot better with the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/minkah-fitzpatrick\/\">Minkah Fitzpatrick<\/a> for their wild-card match against Buffalo on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe it\u2019s fantastic anytime you get 1 of your best players back in the team,&#8221; Pittsburgh defensive coordinator Teryl Austin shared. &#8220;Minkah is a major communicator back there and does many things for us, so I&#8217;m really happy to have him back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The safety, who admitted that he is feeling alright today, trained fully yesterday for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since sustaining a knee problem in Week 15. Safety <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/damontae-kazee\/\">Damontae Kazee<\/a> will also return after being suspended for 3 matches for repeated violations of player safety rules. It\u2019s fantastic news for the organization\u2019s defense that will be without superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/t-j-watt\/\">T.J. Watt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are sad that T.J.&#8217;s not out there with us, but we still must do what we need to do, and having most of our pieces back is huge for our franchise,&#8221; Minkah shared with the media today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Minkah Fitzpatrick told reporters today he plans to play on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is readying for his first game since Dec. 16. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/01uoyUWXoi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/01uoyUWXoi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike DeFabo (@MikeDeFabo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeDeFabo\/status\/1745534179960365238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 defense should look a lot better with the return of Minkah Fitzpatrick for their wild-card match against Buffalo on Sunday. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":475660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22233,17324,17148],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[22234,17873,18446],"acf":{"announce":"The Steelers\u2019 safety is set to return for the match vs. Buffalo.","video":["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\/475659"}],"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=475659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475662,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475659\/revisions\/475662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475659"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475659"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}