The Pittsburgh Steelers traded WR Diontae Johnson for CB Donte Jackson with the Carolina Panthers in March. Johnson wound up bouncing around the league, while the football bounced Jackson’s way. He finished his first season with the Steelers with a career-high five interceptions. And he hopes to have the opportunity to do it again in 2025, still in the Black and Gold.
A 2018 second-round pick by the Panthers, Jackson knows the Steelers coveted him for some years. They didn’t get him in the draft, just missed him in free agency in 2022, and then failed to finalize a trade in 2023.