{"id":898673,"date":"2026-04-12T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/favoritism-beat-writer-explains-why-pat-freiermuth-had-snap-count-cut\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:12:08","slug":"favoritism-beat-writer-explains-why-pat-freiermuth-had-snap-count-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/favoritism-beat-writer-explains-why-pat-freiermuth-had-snap-count-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Favoritism\u2019: Beat Writer Explains Why Pat Freiermuth Had Snap Count Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Smith\u2019s affinity for tight ends is well known but his loyalty to one tight end in particular left many observers puzzled last season. In his second season as\u00a0 offensive coordinator, the Pittsburgh Steelers brought in Jonnu Smith as part of the Jalen Ramsey trade to be another contributor in a crowded tight end room&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersdepot.com\/2026\/03\/favoritism-beat-writer-explains-why-pat-freiermuth-had-snap-count-cut\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Alex Roessler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Smith\u2019s affinity for tight ends is well known but his loyalty to one tight end in particular left many observers puzzled last season. In his second season as\u00a0 offensive coordinator, the Pittsburgh Steelers brought in Jonnu Smith as part of the Jalen Ramsey trade to be another contributor in a crowded tight end room&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":898674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148800,192,3296],"tags":[148799,10584],"class_list":{"0":"post-898673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-favoritism","8":"category-sports","9":"category-writer","10":"tag-favoritism","11":"tag-writer"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}