With the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2022 season over, the team finishing above .500 but failing to make the postseason, we have turned our attention to the offseason and everything that means. One thing that it means is that some stock evaluations are going to start taking on broader contexts, reflecting on a player’s development, either positively or negatively, over the course of the season. Other evaluations will reflect only one immediate event or trend. The nature of the evaluation, whether short-term or long-term, will be noted in the reasoning section below.
Player: CB Ahkello Witherspoon
Stock Value: Down
Reasoning: With the Steelers picking up two more outside cornerbacks during the 2023 NFL Draft, even if one was in the seventh round, the odds have measurably decreased that Ahkello Witherspoon will be earning $4 million come September, which is what he is due on the final year of the two-year contract he signed in 2022.