Steelers urged to make 1 final offseason move before training camp

From huge trades to major signings, the Pittsburgh Steelers have had a productive 2026 offseason. But one NFL analyst has urged the Steelers to pull off a final offseason move before training camp.

According to ESPN’s Aaron Schatz, who recently compiled a list of one final offseason move each NFL team should make, the Steelers need to extend Joey Porter Jr.

“Porter was taken at the top of the second round in the 2023 draft, so he’s coming to the end of his rookie deal,” Schatz wrote. “There’s no fifth-year option at play here, so the Steelers need to re-sign him now to keep him around.

“Porter is a very talented cornerback who finished 10th in the league in my coverage DVOA metric last season. The problem is that Porter will want top-five cornerback money, and there isn’t necessarily evidence that he belongs in that stratosphere. Perhaps the Steelers can get him to agree to something that might be higher than they want to go but lower than what players such as Trent McDuffie and Sauce Gardner recently got paid.”

For reference, McDuffie completely reset the cornerback market with a record-setting four-year, $124 million extension.

While it’s unlikely that Porter’s deal could exceed McDuffie’s average annual value of $31 million, the Steelers would need to get pretty close to that number in order to lock up a new deal.

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