Steelers safety DeShon Elliott
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There's new information on the knee injury to Steelers safety DeShon Elliott.
Despite bringing home a victory over the weekend, the Pittsburgh Steelers got a pretty significant scare when safety DeShon Elliott went down with an injury. Fortunately, there’s solid news regarding the eighth-year man as Week 2 arrives.
According to a Tuesday morning report from Jordan Schultz, Elliott is nursing an MCL sprain.
Sources: #Steelers S DeShon Elliott is expected to miss a couple of weeks with an MCL sprain. All things considered, it’s not viewed as a serious injury.
The goal is to be back for Week 4 vs the Vikings in Ireland. In the meantime, Pittsburgh has signed Jabrill Peppers. pic.twitter.com/ctPS7efV5F
— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) September 9, 2025
Report: DeShon Elliott Potentially Out ‘A Couple of Weeks’ With MCL Sprain
“Sources: Steelers S DeShon Elliott is expected to miss a couple of weeks with an MCL sprain,” Schultz’s tweet began. “All things considered, it’s not viewed as a serious injury. The goal is to be back for Week 4 vs the Vikings in Ireland. In the meantime, Pittsburgh has signed Jabrill Peppers.”
In a separate tweet shortly after Schultz’s report, Mike DeFabo of The Athletic said the injury is “not considered long-term.” He added that Elliott will be “week-to-week at the most” and has a chance to “even be day-to-day.”
This is certainly huge for the Steelers. When news broke that the team was signing Peppers off the open market, many thought that spelled doom for Elliott. On the contrary, there now seems to be a not-so-distant world where the two can play together in the secondary. Elliott has a safe runway to recover and is now facing less pressure to work back quickly.
Prior to leaving Sunday’s win over the New York Jets, Elliott played 26 defensive snaps and 3 special teams reps. After being credited with an assisted tackle on a second-and-7 in the second quarter, he exited the contest. At that point, he logged 6 tackles — 5 solo efforts — in what wound up being a 34-32 victory.
Following the game, head coach Mike Tomlin revealed that Elliott’s injury was “being evaluated.” A new week of practice brings a mostly positive development in that regard. The Steelers’ opponents for Weeks 2-4 are the Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots and Minnesota Vikings.
This story is being updated.