Steelers Burning Question: Spending Free Agent money!
Last season I did the Friday Night Steelers Six Pack and wondered if it was worth doing further. After all, interaction was not great, and sometimes you just have to adjust. So I decided to call an audible, and not just abandon the Friday night meeting of the black-and-gold minds.
Instead of six questions, I wanted to focus solely on one question.
We’ll still do the preamble of what you’re eating/drinking/listening to, but we’ll focus our attention on the one Steelers question of the week. Don’t worry, most weeks I’ll do a bonus/extra credit question for fun. With all that out of the way, let’s get to the question!
How would you spend the Steelers free agent dollars?
As of this being written the Steelers have roughly $64 million dollars in cap space. You have to pay draft picks and keep around $10 million dollars in case of injury, etc. So, let’s say you have $44 million to spend. How would you spend it?
For me, a large sum of that will go to the QB position. I’d allocate $15 million to the position, which makes the total go to $29 million. I want to add a wide receiver and cornerback, so let’s allocate $7 million for each position in 2025, knowing their cost will go up in future years. Which brings our total to $15 million left. At this point I would spend those dollars in the trenches finding the best bang-for-your-buck type players who can help answer some key questions for the team prior to the 2025 NFL Draft.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments section below!
As for what I’m eating, it’s takeout Tex-Mex for dinner. As for drink, it’s always store bought kombucha, as usual, and the tunes will be whatever my family wants to hear!
Happy Friday everyone!!
I’m still friggin’ working which is rare for a Friday. After that though? I have a few Miller Light drafts and greasy fish sandwich and fries at the corner pub lined up. Although I hate Cleveland, I love their basketball team so I will be watching some Cavaliers as well. Not for nothing but the Cavs are 52-10 on the year. They have a legit chance to deliver that crappy town a championship this spring. That’s bitter sweet for me. I’d love to see the Cavs win it but I hate the thought of that populous celebrating a championship.
With regard to FA money? The QB kind of is what it is. Money has to go there. A receiver is a slam dunk. No freaking way that a Van Jefferson can be WR2 again this year.
I love Dave’s RB room: keep one, sign one, draft one. So RB is on my list. I think everything you mentioned is a must as well. Would be curious if Jonathan Allen makes his way to Pittsburgh! DL is needed and I think gets adressed in the draft. But a veteran CB and another WR are 2 musts for me in FA, along with QB of course (hoping fields, but Jeff is selling me on Daniel Jones as a 2nd option). Idk what’s for dinner yet, but I’ll be watching the capitals game (sorry penguins fans). I may have to go to ppg arena to try and catch Ovechkin break the goal record on the last game of the season. Kind of a hike though living in MD.
Looking at my numbers above, which was done probably too quickly this afternoon, they aren’t even close to accurate. LOL
Anyways, we can still debate how they should spend their money! Have a great weekend folks! Next week the craziness starts!
Drinking Flying dog 90 minute IPA, and watching Deadpool 2, with my 90lb lapdog. What can I say, I’m a big Ryan Reynolds fan, and my dog is a world class snuggler with a very schmoopy face.
Ate an egg, and talapia concoction with chunks of Swiss cheese, and a perfectly toasted bagel with real butter. It was pretty freaking good if I do say so myself.
What to do with Arts 44 million, hmmm. I’m not a cap guy, but a cap guy like Omar would be able to sign Fields, 3 other marquee players, and a couple depth pieces with that money. For this excercise I’m just gonna go with the Mount Rushmore approach, and name the 4 positions where I’d like to see this money spent.
#1) QB. Has to be. The rest of the domino’s can fall after this decision is made.
#2) DL. I am of the opinion that the D line is a big liability, and in massive need of help. I’d still draft a D lineman with my #1 if the right one fell far enough.
#3) CB. It’s way past time to get serious about pass coverage. If I’m investing the dollars I’m investing in the front seven I need much better play from my DB’s to give them another second to get home. I’m still drafting one too.
#4) WR. I want a veteran that’s a pro, good locker room guy, knows how to win big games, still has gas in the tank and a fire in his belly.
That’s probably gonna eat all of it, but if not, I’m looking for a RB next. I suspect there’s gonna be at least three more moves in the next few days that creates 10 to 20 million more dollars, so I’ll be checking in here a lot.
I am excited for next week!!
I’d go cheap on qb, bolster the wr position and the dl. Sign a cheap vet at rb and spend big bucks on a cb. I kind of hope for a losing season to get us up the draft board for a real qb. That first part was hard to say out loud but I can’t take 20 years of barely above avg play like we’ve had the past 7-8 years.
a true Pittsburgh Steelers fan, since the 70’s I hope Steelers Omar Khan brings back Justin Fields and convince him to stay 2nd sign Nick Chubb and draft a running back to replace Najee Harris 3rd make sure Omar Khan get a good draft pick for a trade for George Pickens he’s a cancer and not a team player