Kaboly Presents Timeline For When Steelers May Add Extensive Receiver

The Pittsburgh Steelers and basic supervisor Omar Khan didn’t wish to have a repeat of 2024 when it got here to their vast receiver room. And for a short while, it regarded like they wouldn’t. Once they traded for WR DK Metcalf, Steelers followers all over the place dreamed of seeing Metcalf and WR George Pickens terrorizing defenses deep.

Then the Steelers traded Pickens to the Dallas Cowboys, that means the Steelers nonetheless don’t have a bona fide resolution at WR2 previous to coaching camp. They did herald veteran free agent Gabe Davis for a go to early in June. However in line with Ian Rapoport, Davis wasn’t totally healed from the damage points he handled final yr in Jacksonville.

Will the Steelers flip to a different present free agent? Insider Mark Kaboly thinks the Steelers will likely be rather more affected person than that.

“What it seems like now’s that they’re ready till the tip of camp right here,” Kaboly stated when he joined the PM Staff on 93.7 The Fan on Friday. “That’s what it seems like. Finish of coaching camp, somebody will get reduce.”

There are execs and cons to this strategy. Typically, groups reduce veterans attributable to stunning performances by youthful gamers. You may have the ability to get somebody who can contribute at a diminished value who you in any other case must commerce for.

Nonetheless, buying a large receiver after coaching camp means they’ll be a lot farther behind than when you signed or traded for them beforehand. They’ll have missed all these practices. You can not anticipate a large receiver to be able to execute the total offense immediately. You’re ready for him to stand up to hurry or asking little or no of him to begin the yr.

The Steelers should not really feel all that nice in regards to the present crop of free brokers. WR Keenan Allen has already made it clear he has no want to come back to Pittsburgh. The Steelers are in no rush to signal Davis, whether or not that’s because of the accidents or in any other case.

Hopefully, both Calvin Austin III or Roman Wilson will make this a moot level in coaching camp. In any other case, the Steelers are going to battle on the vast receiver place, at the very least to begin 2025. Nevertheless it feels like Khan and head coach Mike Tomlin are keen to be affected person with the vast receiver place proper now.