Steelers sign second-round pick Worilds

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Steelers sign second-round pick Worilds
By Scott Brown, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, July 29, 2010
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The Steelers and second-round draft pick Jason Worilds have agreed to a four-year contract, ensuring the second-round draft pick will report to training camp on time.

Worilds had 14 sacks in three seasons at Virginia Tech. The 6-1, 254-pounder played defensive end in college but has since moved to outside linebacker.

The signing of Worilds leaves the Steelers with just one of their draft picks, first-rounder Maurkice Pouncey, unsigned.

The Steelers haven't had a first-round pick miss any time at training camp since 2004 when quarterback Ben Roethlisberger signed after preseason practice had started.

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Steelers sign second-rounder Worilds for four years
Thursday, July 29, 2010
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The Steelers signed former Virginia Tech linebacker Jason Worilds to a four-year contract.

The Steelers, racing the clock to keep a five-year streak of no rookie holdouts intact, will have at least one of their two top draft picks join them when they report to training camp Friday.

Linebacker Jason Worilds, their second-round draft choice, came to a contract agreement Wednesday night. The length is four years, but financial terms were unavailable.

That leaves only first-round pick Maurkice Pouncey unsigned, putting in jeopardy the Steelers' streak of having all their rookies signed and in training camp on time. Ben Roethlisberger was the last rookie who missed the opening of camp; he signed a contract four days after players reported in 2004.

Pouncey's agent, Joel Segal, is negotiating a five-year deal with the Steelers.

Part of the problem with Pouncey is that not much of the ice has been broken in the first round.

The only first-round draft picks signed are wide receiver Dez Bryant of Dallas and cornerback Devin McCourty, who signed with New England Wednesday. Both players received five-year contracts and both were drafted below Pouncey -- Bryant at No. 24 and McCourty at No. 27.

Pouncey, drafted at No. 18, played center at Florida, but he will be given an opportunity to win the starting job at right guard this season with the Steelers.

Worilds, who played defensive end at Virginia Tech, has moved to outside linebacker.

The Steelers had $2,119,270 of cap room in their rookie salary pool before Worilds signed.

That cap is based on salary and pro-rated signing bonus in 2010 and represents virtually 40 percent of their entire cap to sign their 10-member rookie draft class. They used 59.23 percent to sign their other eight draft picks.

Those eight players all signed three-year contracts, traditional for the Steelers with draft picks after the second round. Each received annual minimum NFL salaries of $320,000, $405,000 and $490,000.

In addition players received the following signing bonuses:

Emmanuel Sanders $586,069, Thaddeus Gibson $366,015, Chris Scott $140,056, Crezdon Butler $119,170, Steven Sylvester $116,560, Jonathan Dwyer $77,840, Antonio Brown $73,075, and Doug Worthington $33,315.

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Re: Steelers sign second-round pick Worilds

[ramblinjim]

Re: Steelers sign second-round pick Worilds

Now let's get the big center into camp and start bustin' some heads!

[RuthlessBurgher]

Re: Steelers sign second-round pick Worilds

Now Jason has to live up to the shortest nickname a Steeler has had since "Fu"..."All"

Jason "All" Worilds.

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Re: Steelers sign second-round pick Worilds

Now Jason has to live up to the shortest nickname a Steeler has had since "Fu"..."All"

Jason "All" Worilds.

Hopefully he matches (or surpasses) the success of other recent three letter nicknamed Steelers:

"Big" Ben Roethlisberger
Jerome "Bus" Bettis
Antwaan Randle El "ARE"

[papillon]

Re: Steelers sign second-round pick Worilds

Now Jason has to live up to the shortest nickname a Steeler has had since "Fu"..."All"

Jason "All" Worilds.

I'm hoping that we have to change his nickname from "All" to "All Day" Worilds, as in, "It's going to be a long day for you (to an offensive player), because, I'll be here "All day"!

Pappy

[RuthlessBurgher]

Re: Steelers sign second-round pick Worilds

Now Jason has to live up to the shortest nickname a Steeler has had since "Fu"..."All"

Jason "All" Worilds.

I'm hoping that we have to change his nickname from "All" to "All Day" Worilds, as in, "It's going to be a long day for you (to an offensive player), because, I'll be here "All day"!

Pappy

LaDainian Tomlinson stole Lawrence Taylor's nickname. Not cool. Lawrence Timmons will not do the same thing. We won't call him L.T.

Similarly, Worilds will not steal Adrian Peterson's nickname. Not cool. We won't call him All Day. All Worilds is fine.