{"id":91907,"date":"2025-09-29T04:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/91907\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:07:14","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-player-allegedly-assaulted-in-dublin-ahead-of-nfl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/91907\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers player allegedly assaulted in Dublin ahead of NFL game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American football player has allegedly been assaulted in Dublin, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL&#8217;s website reports that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Skylar Thompson &#8220;was jumped and robbed Friday night&#8221; in the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It comes ahead of the NFL&#8217;s first-ever game in Dublin between the Steelers and the Minnesota Vikings. The game is being played at Corke Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Thompson is currently on the injured reserve list and was not scheduled to take the field on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">NFL Network Insider reporter Tom Pelissero said the player &#8220;suffered minor injuries but is OK and with the team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Steelers spokesman told the journalist: \u201cWe are aware of a situation involving Skylar Thompson on Friday night in Dublin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;We will have no further comment at this time as we are working with NFL security to gather more information regarding the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Steelers<\/a>\u2019 trip to Dublin wasn\u2019t without some drama: Sources say backup QB Skylar Thompson got jumped and robbed Friday night in Dublin. <\/p>\n<p>Thompson, who is on injured reserve, suffered minor injuries but is OK and with the team. <\/p>\n<p>Statement from Steelers Spokesman Burt\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1972268480675119284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">The garda\u00ed have been contacted for comment. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An American football player has allegedly been assaulted in Dublin, according to reports. The NFL&#8217;s website reports that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1201,18,19,17,5,1202,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-91907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-court-and-crime","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics-and-analysis","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}