{"id":483384,"date":"2024-05-22T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483384"},"modified":"2024-05-22T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:00:40","slug":"nfl-reports-pittsburgh-to-host-2026-draft","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nfl-reports-pittsburgh-to-host-2026-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL reports Pittsburgh to host 2026 draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Football League draft will be in the Steel City.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2026 NFL Draft will be held in Pittsburgh \ud83d\udc40 <\/p>\n<p>First time hosting the draft in over 76 YEARS (1947) \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yHG4GSSCsy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yHG4GSSCsy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brgridiron\/status\/1793304938053021881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh will welcome the 2026 NFL draft, the league reported today, marking the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time the city has welcomed the draft since the event moved out of the Big Apple in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise president and CEO, Art Rooney II, revealed that they think to welcome the event outside Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The roots of pro football really are deep in our region, and so we plan to celebrate really the history of football: the Dan Marinos, the Joe Montanas that came from our area,&#8221; Rooney said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The roots of this game are really significant in Pittsburgh, and so we are ready to really celebrate the history of the sport: the Dan Marinos and the Joe Montanas that came from our region,&#8221; the team president shared today with reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He added that welcoming the draft is significant for the Steelers that is honor on building its best rosters will picks at the draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Football League draft will be in the Steel City. The 2026 NFL Draft will be held in Pittsburgh \ud83d\udc40 First time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483385,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,18899,17148],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17873,18903,18446],"acf":{"announce":"The league announced that Pittsburgh will welcome the draft in 2026.","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\/483384"}],"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=483384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483386,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483384\/revisions\/483386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483384"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483384"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}