{"id":494368,"date":"2025-12-11T23:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/tj-watt-steelers-star-is-hospitalized-for-a-lung-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:25:32","slug":"tj-watt-steelers-star-is-hospitalized-for-a-lung-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/tj-watt-steelers-star-is-hospitalized-for-a-lung-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ Watt, Steelers star, is hospitalized for a lung injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pittsburgh.<\/strong>\u2013 The Pittsburgh Steelers reported this Thursday that their defensive star, <strong>Trent Jordan (TJ) Watt<\/strong>, was hospitalized after presenting a lung injury during the team&#8217;s training activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/final-de-la-copa-libertadores-genero-un-impacto-economico-de-86-millones-de-dolares-en-lima\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">:Final of the Libertadores Cup generated an economic impact of 86 million dollars in Lima<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\u201c<strong>TJ Watt is currently at a local hospital for a medical evaluation of his lung after experiencing discomfort at the training facilities. Coach Mike Tomlin will offer more details in due course,\u201d the franchise said in a statement.<\/strong>\n\nWatt, 31, has been one of the pillars of Pittsburgh&#8217;s defense since his arrival in the first round of the 2017 Draft. Since his rookie season, the linebacker from Pewaukee, Wisconsin, has accumulated seven Pro Bowl selections and four All-Pro designations.\n\nThe player shares with Michael Strahan the <strong>record for most sacks in a season<\/strong>, with 22.5, solidifying himself as one of the most dominant defensive players in the NFL.<br>This season he has <strong>53 tackles and seven sacks in 13 games<\/strong>.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>His participation against Miami is uncertain<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nThe team announced that Watt will be absent from training while he continues under medical observation, which casts doubt on his presence for next Monday night&#8217;s game, in which the Steelers will host the <strong>Miami Dolphins<\/strong>.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Career Marked by Productivity<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nOver nine seasons in the NFL, Watt has recorded <strong>515 tackles, 115 sacks<\/strong>, 36 forced fumbles, 14 recoveries, eight interceptions, 56 passes defended, and one defensive touchdown in 134 games.\n\nIn addition to the shared record for sacks in a season, he also holds the record for <strong>most seasons leading the league in sacks (3)<\/strong> and is the only player to achieve this in <strong>consecutive years<\/strong>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh.\u2013 The Pittsburgh Steelers reported this Thursday that their defensive star, Trent Jordan (TJ) Watt, was hospitalized after presenting a lung injury during the team&#8217;s training activities. You may be interested:Final of the Libertadores Cup generated an economic impact of 86 million dollars in Lima \u201cTJ Watt is currently at a local hospital for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":494369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,41186],"class_list":["post-494368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24BG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/images-13.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/images-13.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}