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Brooke PryorApr 28, 2025, 11:58 AM ET
- Brooke Pryor is simply a newsman for NFL Nation astatine ESPN who has covered the Pittsburgh Steelers since 2019. She antecedently covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and the University of Oklahoma for The Oklahoman.
PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers released 2024 sixth-round prime Ryan Watts connected Monday pursuing a season-ending cervix wounded sustained successful the last preseason crippled of his rookie year.
"We each hold that it's successful Ryan's champion involvement to discontinue playing shot astatine this time," Steelers wide manager Omar Khan said successful a statement. "We volition proceed to enactment Ryan arsenic helium transitions to this adjacent signifier of his life."
Khan said the determination was reached aft consulting with squad doctors, aesculapian experts and Watts' representatives.
Watts' injury, which happened against the Detroit Lions connected Aug. 24, was initially diagnosed arsenic a stinger, and helium was placed connected season-ending IR soon after. He besides appeared to person surgery, posting a representation of himself successful a infirmary furniture with a cervix brace to his Instagram communicative successful January.
"This has easy been 1 of the hardest years of my life," Watts wrote connected the station successful January. "Through superior wounded and all, I volition stay optimistic due to the fact that I tin bash ALL things done HIM. Road to betterment ..."
The antiaircraft backmost spent 2 years astatine Ohio State earlier transferring to Texas for his last 2 collegiate seasons. He finished his assemblage vocation with 100 tackles and 3 interceptions.
