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| The Pittsburgh Steelers are a possible destination for one of the more established veteran quarterbacks in the NFL. As the Steelers enter the 2022 season, they’ll likely do so without Ben Roethlisberger, their quarterback over the past 18 years. While that will be a tough pill to swallow, the Steelers will field a playoff-caliber roster with an extremely young core of players on the offensive side of the ball. Pittsburgh has three options: draft a quarterback, start holdovers Mason Rudolph or Dwayne Haskins, or trade for or sign a veteran quarterback. If the Steelers go with one of the latter options, they could be looking at the Minnesota Vikings‘ Kirk Cousins, DJ Siddiqi of Heavy (https://heavy.com/sports/pittsburgh-steelers/steelers-top-option-vikings-kirk-cousins/) reports. With one year left on his deal and Minnesota appearing to enter a rebuilding phase with the firing of head coach Mike Zimmer and general manager Rick Spielman, the Vikings will likely be in seller mode. According to The Athletic’s Chad Graff (https://theathletic.com/3073160/2022/01/17/if-the-vikings-wanted-to-make-a-deal-what-would-qb-kirk-cousins-net-in-a-trade/), the Steelers — along with the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers — would be the “top options” in a possible trade for the two-time Pro Bowl quarterback. The reason being that the Steelers are one of just a few teams that could reasonably afford Cousins’ $35 million salary for the 2022 season. “The $35 million cap hit a team would incur by taking on Cousins would be 16.8 percent of the projected $208 million salary cap for 2022,” said Graff. “Very few teams have the space to take on a player with that large of a hit. Because of that, the number of teams capable of making a trade for Cousins without the Vikings taking on additional money is slim. The top options for a Cousins trade seem to be the Broncos, Steelers and Panthers, with a couple of other teams perhaps marginally interested. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/theredzoneorg |
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$35M cap hit. Absolutely not. Who writes this crap.Comment
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I'm a Toronto Maple Leafs fan.
The Leafs have a big fan base in Canada.
So when writers want clicks around trade talk, they link the Leafs to trades and big UFA signings. Because they know that fans will read about how <insert big name here> is definitely coming to Toronto. And it almost never happens. Because it was just made up.
I have a feeling that the Steelers are going to get this treatment for any QB that has any whiff of potentially being traded this offseason. And maybe next year too.
It already started a while ago with Rodgers and Watson.
And I'll do my best to ignore all of it.
Because I don't think it makes sense for the player or the team given the current state of the roster.
And if it happens, I'll happily root for the player to have several all-pro seasons and hoist many championship trophies.Comment
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Don’t see that happening, don’t want it happening.How is it possible to have the best owner, best front office, best gm, best HC, good/great drafts every year and good FA acquisitions every year, but only have 3 playoff wins in 14 years?Comment
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It's actually worse - His cap hit is $45 M b/c of the signing bonus he got when he signed his deal. HELL NO!!!!!!!sigpicComment
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That would be a very expensive mistake.Steelers 27
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"Playoff caliper roster"???Steel City Mafia
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