{"id":7062,"date":"2013-10-29T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-sign-p-mcbriar-waive-mesko\/"},"modified":"2013-10-29T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:52:00","slug":"steelers-sign-p-mcbriar-waive-mesko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/steelers-sign-p-mcbriar-waive-mesko\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers sign P McBriar, waive Mesko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers placed punter Zoltan Mesko on waivers Tuesday while signing veteran Mat McBriar to take his place.<\/p>\n<p>Mesko was ranked last in the AFC with a 42.5 average per kick and was coming off a shaky performance in the Steelers&#8217; 21-18 loss at Oakland this past Sunday. The fourth-year pro had one of his seven punts travel just 30 yards, while another was partially blocked and helped set up a Raiders&#8217; touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers had claimed Mesko off waivers from New England just prior to the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>McBriar, a two-time Pro Bowl selection during his tenure with Dallas from 2003-11, had been released by Philadelphia back in March. The former Australian-rules football player averaged 46.5 yards per punt in 13 games with the Eagles last season.<\/p>\n<p>Over 10 NFL seasons, McBriar has averaged 45.4 yards per punt with a net of 38.0 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Steelers placed punter Zoltan Mesko on waivers Tuesday while signing veteran Mat McBriar to take his place. Mesko was ranked last in the AFC with a 42.5 average per kick and was coming off a shaky performance in the Steelers&#8217; 21-18 loss at Oakland this past Sunday. The fourth-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[143,142,144],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}