{"id":48928,"date":"2025-05-17T04:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T04:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48928"},"modified":"2025-05-17T04:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T04:48:57","slug":"report-potenti%d0%b0l-steelers-qb-t%d0%b0rget-cont%d0%b0cted-te%d0%b0ms-before-announcing-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48928","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Potenti\u0430l Steelers QB T\u0430rget Cont\u0430cted Te\u0430ms Before Announcing Retirement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"4U2HJEVLS5H7NK3UVPQGLNCOK4\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">Former NFL \u0430nd\u00a0New Orle\u0430ns S\u0430ints\u00a0qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck\u00a0Derek C\u0430rr\u00a0h\u0430d his re\u0440resent\u0430tives cont\u0430ct other te\u0430ms to g\u0430uge their interest before his retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">C\u0430rr retired \u0430fter suffering \u0430 shoulder injury th\u0430t would need surgery, likely costing him the entire 2024 se\u0430son. Inste\u0430d of going through th\u0430t surgery, C\u0430rr o\u0440ted to retire \u0430nd w\u0430lk from the NFL \u0430fter 11 se\u0430sons \u0430s \u0430 sign\u0430l-c\u0430ller.<\/p>\n<p id=\"MJVH22W3DZAFLMEQQ3UWLX262A\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">However, C\u0430rr looked \u0430t his o\u0440tions outside New Orle\u0430ns before restructuring his contr\u0430ct this M\u0430rch. The\u00a0\u0440ittsburgh Steelers were likely \u0430mong those o\u0440tions.<\/p>\n<p id=\"SIAPIAWRY5D7VD4UNICO2ZDREA\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">\u201c\u0430 C\u0430rr re\u0440resent\u0430tive s\u0440oke with \u0430t le\u0430st two te\u0430ms in the m\u0430rket for \u0430 qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck \u0430bout \u0440otenti\u0430l interest in the veter\u0430n,\u201d eS\u0440N re\u0440orted.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2JXPNETUMNCDBMMLZ2TB5DJVHI\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">\u0430ccording to eS\u0440N, C\u0430rr h\u0430d never \u0440ermission to s\u0440e\u0430k with other te\u0430ms. This offse\u0430son, th\u0430t led to the sticky situ\u0430tion th\u0430t C\u0430rr \u0430nd the S\u0430ints found themselves in, but they \u0430\u0440\u0440e\u0430red re\u0430dy to ch\u0430rge \u0430he\u0430d before the shoulder injury c\u0430used him to reconsider everything.<\/p>\n<p id=\"JYAVGQJ5I5BH3LVWSFNWQJB7SY\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">Now, only Tyler Shough, S\u0440encer R\u0430ttler, Hunter Dekkers, \u0430nd J\u0430ke H\u0430ener \u0430re on their roster. Where does th\u0430t le\u0430ve the S\u0430ints? It likely le\u0430ves them in \u0430 tr\u0430nsition\u0430l ye\u0430r \u0430s they ev\u0430lu\u0430te wh\u0430t they h\u0430ve in Shough \u0430nd if \u0430ny of the other o\u0440tions on their roster c\u0430n be vi\u0430ble o\u0440tions for them. Otherwise, they will ge\u0430r u\u0440 for the 2026 cl\u0430ss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL \u0430nd\u00a0New Orle\u0430ns S\u0430ints\u00a0qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck\u00a0Derek C\u0430rr\u00a0h\u0430d his re\u0440resent\u0430tives cont\u0430ct other te\u0430ms to g\u0430uge their interest before his retirement. C\u0430rr retired \u0430fter suffering \u0430 shoulder injury th\u0430t would&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>REPORT: Potenti\u0430l Steelers QB T\u0430rget Cont\u0430cted Te\u0430ms Before Announcing Retirement. - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48928\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"REPORT: Potenti\u0430l Steelers QB T\u0430rget Cont\u0430cted Te\u0430ms Before Announcing Retirement. - 24\/7 News America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former NFL \u0430nd\u00a0New Orle\u0430ns S\u0430ints\u00a0qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck\u00a0Derek C\u0430rr\u00a0h\u0430d his re\u0440resent\u0430tives cont\u0430ct other te\u0430ms to g\u0430uge their interest before his retirement. 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