{"id":19478,"date":"2025-07-28T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/patterson-cut-by-steelers-end-of-an-era-for-the-nfl-return-king\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:17:18","slug":"patterson-cut-by-steelers-end-of-an-era-for-the-nfl-return-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/patterson-cut-by-steelers-end-of-an-era-for-the-nfl-return-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Patterson, Cut by Steelers: End of an Era for the NFL Return King"},"content":{"rendered":"Cordarrelle Patterson announced his departure from the Pittsburgh Steelers via social media.\n\nThe 34-year-old player shared the news on his X account with a sarcastic tone.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for the opportunity \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe<\/p>\u2014 Cordarrelle Patterson (@ceeflashpee84) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ceeflashpee84\/status\/1767221224396842345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> \n<\/div><\/figure>\n\nPatterson had one year remaining on a two-year, $6 million contract that he signed with the Steelers last year. This decision allows the team to save $2.8 million in cap space.\n\nSince his arrival in the NFL in 2013, Patterson has achieved nine kick return touchdowns, making him the league&#8217;s all-time leader in this category. However, the Steelers only used him on 11 kick returns last season.\n\nIn the previous season, the four-time Pro Bowl selection participated in 13 games with the Steelers, accumulating a total of 215 yards and one touchdown.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cordarrelle Patterson announced his departure from the Pittsburgh Steelers via social media. The 34-year-old player shared the news on his X account with a sarcastic tone. Patterson had one year remaining on a two-year, $6 million contract that he signed with the Steelers last year. This decision allows the team to save $2.8 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6461,64,6462,1070],"class_list":{"0":"post-19478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cordarrelle-patterson","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-released","11":"tag-steelers"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}