{"id":15524,"date":"2016-01-27T21:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=15524"},"modified":"2016-01-27T21:30:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T02:30:45","slug":"heath-miller-expected-to-return-to-steelers-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2016\/01\/27\/heath-miller-expected-to-return-to-steelers-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Heath Miller expected to return to Steelers for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2016\/01\/heathmiller.jpg\" alt=\"heathmiller\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2016\/01\/heathmiller.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2016\/01\/heathmiller-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nIt is hard to imagine tight end Heath Miller playing anywhere but Pittsburgh and according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/steelers\/2016\/01\/26\/Ed-Bouchette-s-Steelers-chat-transcript-1-26-16\/stories\/201601260182\">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a> the veteran should be back with the club next season.<\/p>\n<p>With the evolution of the Steelers offense under Todd Haley the 33-year-old Miller has seen his numbers drop off a bit but he remains one of the better tight ends in the league. Miller&#8217;s blocking has also taken a bit of a step back in recent years but owed just $4 million it is hard to imagine he will not be on the Steelers roster come 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse James could take away more of Miller&#8217;s snaps next year but the latter should open the season as the starter.<\/p>\n<p>Miller caught 60 passes last year for 535 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to imagine tight end Heath Miller playing anywhere but Pittsburgh and according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette the veteran should be back with the club next season. With the evolution of the Steelers offense under Todd Haley the 33-year-old Miller has seen his numbers drop off a bit but he remains one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,668,216,68],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-15524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-heath-miller","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15526,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524\/revisions\/15526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15524"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}