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Pittsburgh Steelers guard Max Scharping suffered a knee injury in practice on Wednesday that is feared to be significant, according to a report by Ian Rapoport of NFL Network.
Scharping was listed as a limited participant on the team’s injury report for Wednesday. That means only that the player did not take their full allotment of usual reps during the practice session.
According to Rapoport, the injury is feared to be severe and Scharping will undergo an MRI to to determine the severity.
Scharping, 29, is in his second season with the Steelers. He joined the club in 2024, signing on Oct. 1 and remaining with the team for the rest of the season, but he only appeared in two games.
He re-signed with the Steelers for 2025 and was expected to be one of the team’s backup interior offensive linemen, along with Spencer Anderson and Ryan McCollum.
Scharping was a second-round pick of the Houston Texans in the 2019 NFL Draft out of Northern Illinois. He spent his first three seasons with the Texans, immediately becoming a starter at left guard in 2019.
In 2021, Scharping moved over to right guard and was again a starter for the third straight season, but he was waived by Houston in August of 2022. He then caught on with the Cincinnati Bengals, where he played sparingly over two seasons as a backup at guard and center.
A 6-foot-6, 325-pound lineman, Scharping came into the league with a reputation of being a strong pass protector from his time at NIU. He posted an 8.83 out of 10 Relative Athletic Score at the 2019 NFL Combine.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: Injury Feared to Be Serious for Steelers Offensive Lineman
