The unlimited free agency phase of the NFL season is almost at hand. Like most years, the first week is an overwhelming (best case) or a frustrating (likely scenario) for Steelers and their fans that hamper salaries. Below are 17 Steelers-related things that I predict (in no particular order) will happen as soon as the clock strikes Wednesday at 4 p.m.
- Moments after NFL players are free to purchase their services from the highest bidder, the Steelers will post a social media picture of player Jordan Berry signing a $ 1.5 million three-year deal.
- Two hours before a free agency begins, Colin Cowherd, along with many other national experts, will declare the Ravens free agent winner and Super Bowl favorite for 2021. Of course, these statements will happen before the Ravens officially sign anyone. , but because the experts intended to do so, no matter what, they thought they would just start clearing it out early.
- The Steelers will agree to the return of Le’Veon Bell and immediately call him the forerunner to the 2021 season.
- Bell’s contract will include a lot of guaranteed money and a few void years. Team President Art Rooney II will hold a press conference saying that the decision to bring Bell back was motivated by the regret the organization has always had since allowing Rod Woodson to step down in 1997. “Hopefully all this guaranteed money will make the football gods happy,” Art II will say.
- The Steelers will call Bell a leader before retirement in their 2021 Hall of Honor class.
- Hours after returning to Pittsburgh, Bell will release his latest rap song, titled “Salary Cap Hell.”
- Hours later, Bell will pass another drug test when a combination of Center Silver and Bud Light Seltzer Mango is found in his system.
- Upset about the former Steelers free agent activity, Pittsburgh-born and big fan Billy Gardell will insist on the name of his new CBS sitcom, Bob Hearts Abishola, changed to It’s complicated.
- Instead of attending the Pro Days of the leading backs and / or offensive lineouts in the upcoming NFL draft in 2021, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin will be seen at an Applebee with the sixth best prospect for the corner line .
- Looking for a veteran in the reception room, the Steelers will sign Johnny Holton for a one-year contract.
- There will be an accompanying hype video (of what is uncertain).
- Veteran Steelers.com writer Bob Labriola will then write an article about the time Holton raised his diva share when it took a little too long to serve him in a Primanti Brothers area in 2019.
- By the third day of the Steelers’ ‘frenzy’ of co-editor Jeff Hartman, co-editor, behind the Steel Curtain, he will ask for posters not to comment for a few days in an attempt to ‘flatten the curve’ to make ‘not. No one will really know what it means, but it will actually work for a few hours.
- That’s until word gets out that the Patriots traded their 2024 fourth-round pick to Houston in exchange for quarterback Deshaun Watson. Despite Watson’s fairly lucrative deal, the Patriots will actually get a ceiling after convincing Watson to sign a new contract that includes 51 void years until 2073.
- Heads will explode across the country when SB Nation decides to remove the poison feature.
- I will be forced to use the “ignore” feature by dozens of BTSC readers after the Steelers signed Sean Davis to a two-year contract for a top value.
- Hours later, Davis is also named a member before the retirement of the Steelers 2021 Hall of Honor Class.