Beat Reporter Believes Steelers Will Wait To Enhance WR Room Till Aaron Rodgers’ Choice

Whether or not it finally ends up being addition by subtraction or not, there may be little debate that the Pittsburgh Steelers grew to become much less gifted on the WR place after they traded George Pickens to the Dallas Cowboys. Will they make a corresponding transfer to enhance the room with one other offseason addition, or are they rolling the cube on the event of Calvin Austin III, Roman Wilson and others?

Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette Steelers beat reporter Ray Fittipaldo gave his two cents on 93.7 The Fan’s The Pomp and Joe Present on Friday.

“I believe they’re gonna wait to see if Aaron Rodgers indicators after which if Aaron Rodgers indicators you form of exit and match anyone who’s gonna match him,” he mentioned. “You don’t wanna simply exit now and signal the most important identify on the market. Whether or not that’s Keenan Allen or a Gabe Davis…There’s guys on the market with good numbers, however actually I believe you wanna get the correct match for Aaron Rodgers and everybody retains coming again to Allen Lazard. We don’t even know if he’s out there but with the Jets, however that will be an excellent match.”

It’s arduous to wrap your head across the Steelers making any roster selections (or lack thereof) for a 41-year-old quarterback that hasn’t even signed a contract but to decide to the group. There have been rumblings of a handshake settlement in place, however nothing is definite till the ink dries on the dotted line.

If the Steelers had been eager about giving him the very best receivers, they in all probability wouldn’t have traded Pickens.

Aaron Rodgers’ affect on the Jets’ roster was fairly obvious over his two years there. They introduced in Randall Cobb, Malik Taylor, Allen Lazard, Davante Adams and a few his former offensive linemen over his two years in New York. He received’t have that form of affect in Pittsburgh, but it surely wouldn’t be stunning for Lazard or maybe one in all his different former Packers receivers to finish up in Pittsburgh.

The Steelers are projected to have 12 draft picks subsequent yr. Whereas lots of them might be used to maneuver up for a quarterback, they nonetheless have wiggle room to make use of a late-round decide to enhance the receiver room. The Packers drafted each Matthew Golden and Savion Williams final month. Might one in all both Romeo Doubs or Christian Watson make sense? Each performed with Rodgers throughout their rookie seasons in 2022.

Watson was a second-round decide and hasn’t had a lot success aside from the lone season he spent with Rodgers. He’s getting into a contract yr, so he doubtless wouldn’t be the most expensive commerce given his current monitor document of 1,042 yards and 7 TDs during the last two seasons mixed.

Whereas Omar Khan expressed confidence in his present group, I can’t think about they need a repeat of final yr. Including yet another WR, and one which has expertise with Rodgers, makes an excessive amount of sense to not contemplate.