Minkah Fitzpatrick is a very good football player and one of the best safeties in the NFL. Joining the league as a first-round draft pick in 2018, he has appeared in 66 games and registered a combined 18 takeaways as well as two first-team All-Pro nominations.
He is a cornerstone of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense, and the team making him the highest paid safety in league history did not come as too big a surprise: according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the two sides reached an agreement on a four-year, $73.6 million contract extension on Wednesday.