{"id":39837,"date":"2025-04-25T23:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/derrick-harmons-mother-dies-shortly-after-steelers-select-him-in-nfl-draft\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:04:19","slug":"derrick-harmons-mother-dies-shortly-after-steelers-select-him-in-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/derrick-harmons-mother-dies-shortly-after-steelers-select-him-in-nfl-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick Harmon\u2019s mother dies shortly after Steelers select him in NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Tiffany Saine was on life support at time of selection<\/li>\n<li>Harmon said mother helped motivate him in career<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tiffany Saine, the mother of Derrick Harmon, died shortly after the Pittsburgh Steelers selected her son with the 21st pick of the NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Harmon was visibly emotional as he was picked, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HN8tLEU8qgU\">the ESPN broadcast showed a video<\/a> in which the defensive tackle spoke about his mother\u2019s health issues and paid tribute to the positive effect she had on his life. Saine was on life support when Harmon was selected and the 21-year-old told reporters he was going to see her in hospital after Thursday night\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/25\/derrick-harmon-mother-steelers-nfl-draft\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiffany Saine was on life support at time of selection Harmon said mother helped motivate him in career Tiffany Saine, the mother of Derrick Harmon, died shortly after the Pittsburgh Steelers selected her son with the 21st pick of the NFL draft. Harmon was visibly emotional as he was picked, and the ESPN broadcast showed &#8230; <a title=\"Derrick Harmon\u2019s mother dies shortly after Steelers select him in NFL draft\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/derrick-harmons-mother-dies-shortly-after-steelers-select-him-in-nfl-draft\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Derrick Harmon\u2019s mother dies shortly after Steelers select him in NFL draft\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}