Free agency in the NFL begins March 9, which also signals the start of another period — teams can again make trades.
The Steelers may well make one or more, but maybe they should just sit this trading period out, judging by their most recent history of swaps — particularly when they give up a draft pick to acquire a player.
Take the past two years, for example, when they used three draft picks to trade for players and all three bombed.
In 2015, they traded a 2016 sixth-rounder to Jacksonville for kicker Josh Scobee. His contributions amounted to helping them lose two of the four games in which he kicked.