{"id":1754,"date":"2014-05-19T08:31:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2014-05-19T08:31:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:31:43","slug":"10-things-you-should-know-doug-whaley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You Should Know &#8211; Doug Whaley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10T2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1755\" alt=\"10T2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10T2.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Doug Whaley played safety and linebacker at Pittsburgh University.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Donahoe hired Whaley in 1995, Doug left his job as a retail stock broker to join the Steelers.<\/li>\n<li>Whaley played college football with Steve Israel, Ruben Brown, Curtis Martin and Alex Van Pelt<\/li>\n<li>He\u2019s largely credited with scouting and drafting, Lamar Woodley, Lawrence Timmons and Troy Polamalu.<\/li>\n<li>In 2007, Whaley forwarded an email containing a pornographic video to Steelers line coach Larry Zierlein. Zierlein then inadvertently sent the email to top executives, including commissioner Goodell.<\/li>\n<li>Whaley won back-to-back conference championships in high school 88 &amp; 89.<\/li>\n<li>In the 1989 Championship game Whaley\u2019s team defeated Wilson High School whose QB was Kerry Collins.<\/li>\n<li>Despite playing fullback in high school Whaley rushed for 300 yards in back to back games.<\/li>\n<li>Whaley chose Pitt over Harvard, Yale, William and Mary, Holy Cross, Army, Air Force &amp; Hawaii.<\/li>\n<li>Whaley played under coach Paul Hackett (Nate\u2019s Father) at Pitt.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Doug Whaley played safety and linebacker at Pittsburgh University. Tom Donahoe hired Whaley in 1995, Doug left his job as a retail stock broker to join the Steelers. Whaley played college football with Steve Israel, Ruben Brown, Curtis Martin and Alex Van Pelt He\u2019s largely credited with scouting and drafting, Lamar Woodley, Lawrence Timmons &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1754\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22,108,165,164,163,166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}