The 2019 free agent signing period will begin five weeks from today and fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers can only hope that the team will be a little bit more active this offseason than they normally are during the first few weeks and especially when it looks like they’ll have a bit more available salary cap space to go shopping with this year. One player who could and should be on the Steelers usual short list of targeted unrestricted free agent this March is Houston Texans safety Tyrann Mathieu.
The Steelers obviously could have gone after Mathieu last offseason during free agency but with them being tighter against the salary cap and the LSU product and former third-round draft pick of the Arizona Cardinals mainly looking for a team that would pay him a more than reasonable one-year price so that he could increase his future worth in 2018 for one potential final big payday in 2019, it’s not surprising that the do-everything defensive player landed with the Texans.